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Geologists say that the existence of other, untapped deposits probably means that the world won't run out of potash for thousands of years.

But it said the move to hire HBSC was preliminary and did not mean Sinochem would make a counterbid for Potash Corp.

Potash said the BHP bid 'grossly undervalued' the company; BHP has said the offer is full and fair.

He said the company likely held exploratory talks with the federal government before launching its bid for Potash Corp.

For its part, BHP Billiton sees Potash Corp as one of the few takeover targets that would make a difference to its long-term growth.

The company says "the increase in potash sales volumes this quarter represents the beginning of a return to long-term growth in demand. "

Put to a Canadian, such talk may elicit reminders of that country's pivotal influence as a potash, tar sands and uranium producer.

He said Chinese investors were among those asking him to consider participating in a bid for Potash Corp, the No. 1 fertilizer supplier.

Potash may be tempted to bulk up its balance sheet with debt to make it a more expensive deal for BHP.

Potash has held discussions with Sinochem, a source close to the matter told Reuters in August.

Mains electricity runs between a cathode to an anode through a mixture of potash, water, and a "secret catalyst" , and generates heat.

Potash urged shareholders not to tender to the BHP offer, which may well turn out to be the biggest takeover deal in any industry this year.

The company said it would continue to pursue its Jansen potash project in Canada, which would be the world's biggest single potash mine.

The parallel price falls would have been even steeper if the potash industry had not cut production by 40 per cent.

Asia is expected to produce a rapidly increasing surplus of nitrogen, but will continue to import phosphate and potash.

Chinese companies have expressed interest in buying into Canadian potash projects in Africa, said the BNW News Wire .

As the growing population requires more protein, more feed crops have to be grown -- which requires a larger supply of potash.

This outcome is possible if BHP is willing to substantially raise its bid for Potash.

But it's such a big consumer that the price it pays to import additional potash set the price of the commodity globally this year.

Potassium hydroxide is frequently called caustic potash, and in the fertilizer industry, potassium oxide is called potash.

The potash price has not fallen anywhere close to the cost of existing production.

He declined to say whether Sinochem has talked to the Canadian company since the BHP bid.

Maintaining that promise depends in part on potash, the only fertiliser in which China is seriously deficient.

The person added that much of the interest in Potash Corp. , including Sinochem's, is preliminary, and no proposals have been made.

Thus the Russian potash merger worried Chinese regulators that foreign producers would get a stranglehold over a vital commodity.

Potash Corp. has the capacity to produce more than 10 million tons of potash a year, mostly from mines in Saskatchewan.

Potash Corp. , the biggest fertilizer producer, has rebuffed Melbourne- based BHP's $130 a share offer and said it was seeking suitors.

The Canadian pension fund acknowledged the approach but told reporters last week that it was not interested in potash at this time.

China, India and Brazil are among the world's largest buyers of potash, a key ingredient used to boost crop yield.

"The government of Canada is a hurdle that has to be crossed, " he said on Thursday, after the Potash rejection.

This paper introduces some results of investigation on the processing technology for a certain potash feldspar ore.

The offer is likely to set off a long struggle for the fate of Potash Corp. , a crown jewel of Canada's natural-resources-based economy.

Potash of Saskatchewan, which controls 22% of the world potash supply, expects rising prices to be reflected in its bottom line.

BHP Billiton's bid for Canada's Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan isn't the only big thing happening in fertilizer these days.

BHP said it would continue to pursue its Jansen potash project in Canada, which would be the world's biggest single potash mine.

Separately, the Telegraph newspaper said Yara could be a potential buyer of Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan Inc. 's non- potash units.

Potash said that BHP had made unsolicited contact with its customers as part of BHP's $39bn hostile bid for the Canadian company.

Water and feed regularly, especially while plants are bearing flowers and fruit, when a high-potash fertilizer is recommended.

They forecast that China will have to import as much as 85% of its potash needs over the coming years.

A second source confirmed that Potash Corp was considering joint ventures with third parties as an option.

"Over the past 20 years, [China's] annual potash consumption growth has averaged almost 10 per cent, " he said.

Buying a minority stake would almost certainly go down better than an outright Chinese takeover of Potash.

Potash is a catch-all name for compounds rich in potassium used to replenish tired soils and boost production.

The price of potash has already started to recover from declines sparked by the Great Recession.

Such long-term global trends have turned Potash Corp. into a highflying stock that has soared since 2005.

As a result, countries are starting to see potash much as they see crude oil: as a hunted, strategic commodity.

For China, control over Potash Corp. through Sinochem would be linked to vital issues of food security.

Potash fertilizer plays a very important role to the experimental control of the victims of kapok tree.

In November 2006 he built large positions in fertilizer companies Mosaic and Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan. This time the stocks quadrupled.

China is the world's largest importer of potash, a key crop fertiliser, and Sino-chem considers food security part of its mandate.

But the domestic deposits are not large enough to match the country's growing appetite for potash.

A state- owned company may lower potash prices, hurting taxpayers, the province's Energy and Resources Minister Bill Boyd said Sept.

The consortium would have to raise a huge amount of money to beat BHP's offer, and Potash Corp.

Potash is one of three Canadian potash producers that own Canpotex.

This paper briefly describes the potash resources in Thailand, Laos, Russia, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan and puts forward some comments.

Any changes to marketing or production could lower potash prices, which determine the size of Saskatchewan's royalties.

But their interest in the price and availability of potash , a mineral used in fertilizers, is keen.

The cost of potash has fallen since its high of 2008 as farmers cut fertiliser use during the global financial crisis.

BHP strained every sinew to make its bid attractive to Canada and the province of Saskatchewan, where the target mines its potash.

BHP Billiton, the world's biggest mining company, has also added bulk to its potash operations.

Africa will remain a major phosphate exporter and increase nitrogen exports while importing all of its potash.

Lower-priced potash would also be of keen interest to the world's biggest importers, China, India and Brazil.

The likelihood of that getting back to $150 or more, however, is that much less without the aid of Chinese whispers.

The steady rise in demand for crop nutrients like potash over the past year is expected to accelerate as the world's population grows.

But its ambitions are obvious - as the world's biggest potash importer it wants a say in the fate of the world's largest producer.

In potash it turns black, but in alum nothing happens until you bring it to the boil, then purple colour comes flooding out.

These will boost its phosphate- and potash-based fertiliser businesses, which serve Brazil's vast and growing agricultural sector.

If BHP raises its bid, but still can't win over Potash Corp's board, it may again take its higher bid directly to shareholders.

Avoid applying potash to leaves, seeds, or roots at concentrations which will cause fertilizer-salt damage (i. E. , Scorching of leaves). A.

Cargill declined comment on any interest in Potash, citing company policy against discussing its investment strategy.

Potash is based in Saskatchewan and the Canadian government had rejected the acquisition as not in the national interest.

China is deficient in potash resource and potash industry is weak, potash supply is realized by export and its dependence is 76%.

Potash production in the United States was not developed until World War I .

The slow-release properties are studied of the available silicon oxide in potash-calcium fertilizers.

Buying Potash Corp. would propel BHP to the top of the league of producers of potash.

Therefore research work on development of potash products and setting up new potash production bases should be further strengthened.

A successful takeover of Potash Corp. would be BHP's biggest ever acquisition.

If BHP returns with the "big boy" price Potash's chief wants, shareholders should be realistic.

Potash is an important nutrient that replenishes soil and increases farmland's crop yield .

Potash is the world's largest supplier of the namesake fertilizer, a key plant nutrient that increases the yield of agricultural land.

A Sinochem official did not have any knowledge of any contact with Potash Corp.

POTASH FERTILIZERS. DETERMINATION OF POTASSIUM CONTENT BY FLAME PHOTOMETRY.

The result would supply theory base on increasing capacity of soil available potassium and ratio of potash fertilizer utilization .

BHP's Jansen project is a large greenfield potash development in Saskatchewan, the Canadian province where PotashCorp is based.

The ancient Egyptians used salts from the Dead Sea for mummification, fertilizers, and potash (a potassium-based salt).

But the stock was still 12 percent above BHP's offer of $130 (84. 45 pounds) a share, with investors holding out for a higher offer.

While some speculate Canadian-resource nationalism has spread from potash to energy, there is little evidence of this.

With potash application and the same ratio of N and K, the higher nitrogen fertilization could result in higher K content and accumulation.

The other is Belarusian Potash Company (BPC), the marketing arm of Moscow-based UralKali and Belaruskali of Belarus.

Potash Corp. is the target of a $40 billion hostile bid from BHP Billiton Ltd. , the world's biggest mining company.

The other is Belarusian Potash Company (BPC), the marketing arm of Moscow-based UralKali and Belaruskali of Belarus.

Potash Corp. is the target of a $40 billion hostile bid from BHP Billiton Ltd. , the world's biggest mining company.

But Vale denies that recent investments in Brazilian potash are motivated by anything but commercial good sense.

Mr. Wei added China will import about three million tons of potash this year, while continuing to export and produce locally.

Saskatchewan's premier, Brad Wall, insists Potash is a "special case" and hence not indicative of future policy.

Ten proposed a limit on the Potash Corp. bid, with a median price of $145 a share, the survey showed.

non-metallic mine to have asbestos, marble, limestone, granite, potash feldspar ore, quartz quarry, sepiolite mining, lignite and so on.

Potash, along with urea and phosphate, are the key ingredients for making fertilizer.

Mix the potash well with the water. Add it to the oil in a wooden bucket.

Some main potash producers in the world have continuously improved their technology and developed new products of non chloride potash.

A BMO Capital Markets analyst estimates China's midterm annual potash shortfall at five million to six million tons.

Industry experts said Beijing could scrutinize a BHP takeover of Potash Corp. under China's antimonopoly law.

But Vale said it is not preparing a bid for Potash Corp, confirming what sources had told Reuters earlier in the day.

Potash water glass cement is made up of potash water glass, condensed aluminum phosphate as curing agent and acid-resistant fillings.

The proposed BHP-Potash deal will be another intriguing test run for the limits of political intervention.

China buys around 7 percent of the output of Potash Corp, which controls around one-fifth of world production of the key crop nutrient.

But Sasketchewan's finances are more closely linked to potash price than volume.

The extensive deposition of potash salts in North America in Paleozoic Era was associated closely with the position of paleoequator.

Capacity of the soil to retain and store potash fertilizer in plant-available form.

Together, UralKali, Silvinit and Belaruskali would control about 35 per cent of the global potash export market.

Mosaic, Potash's top rival, is also optimistic about the prospects of a potash rebound.

Signs that China plans to do battle with BHP Billiton Ltd. for Canada's Potash Corp. are mounting.

He is negotiating with Belaruskali, the world's third-largest potash producer, and Phosagro, Russia's largest phosphate fertiliser producer.

High demand for potash and uranium in Saskatchewan entices Canadian workers to move west.

When China's Sinochem Corp. explored ways of acquiring Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan this fall, it struggled to find allies.

Producers of potash, a key fertilizer, should prosper mightily from food inflation.

Potash is the common name for fertilizer derived from potassium , and includes potassium carbonate and other salts .

North America possesses the biggest single potash deposits and half of the potash reserves in the world.

Mix the potash well with the water. Add it to the oil in a woodenbocketbucket.

But then again, Chinese farmers might prefer that potash becomes less profitable.

Both deals pale in size next to BHP Billiton's hostile $39 billion offer for Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan, disclosed Tuesday.

Potash Corp has asked the court to resolve the litigation before the November 18 deadline on BHP's bid, the source said.

We obtained yellow pigment from the Zhi Zi and Huang Bai by boiling them in potash and alum.

The larger irrigation area and potash fertilizer input per unit has, the higher soil salinization probability will be.

Agrium, which sells seeds as well as fertilizer, is more diversified than Potash or Mosaic.

In 1994, it passed a law requiring that Potash Corp's senior management and related head-office functions remain in Saskatchewan.

Goldman analysts expect farmers to boost potash consumption significantly from weak 2009 levels.

China is the world's largest importer of potash in a normal year, and the mineral is used to enhance crop yields.

Canpotex already controls about 25 per cent of global potash exports, putting the combined share of the two main cartels at 60 per cent.

In January it paid $320m for Athabasca Potash, a Canadian business situated near a mine it owns in Saskatchewan.

"We remain committed to Canada and we plan to develop a significant presence in the potash industry in Saskatchewan, " Kloppers said.

In their projects of developing K mine, Chile, Eggpt, Israel, Jordan, USA, all include non chloride potash.

'We are the licensing body, and we are exploring what leverage we have with those licenses' for mining potash, Mr. Wall said.

One simple way to make soft soap requires 9 kilograms of potash. You also need 12keloskilos of any kind of oil and 26 liters of water.

Morgan Stanley analysts estimated in a recent note that China could pay $181 to $188 a share for Potash.

requires 9 kilograms of potash. You also need 12 kilos of any kind of oil and 26 liters of water.

Being the world's largest producer of potash, an ingredient of fertiliser, is hardly strategic.

Smarting from such rejections, BHP remains eager to close its Potash deal.

China's potash buyers have bargained hard for lower prices and have snubbed Saskatchewan's export cartel.

Potash adopted a shareholder-rights plan on Tuesday that puts a 20% ceiling on any single stakeholder.

Buying PotashCorp would bring forward BHP's potash cash flows, and give it 30 per cent of the market.

A quick look at its 2009 annual report offers insight into the state of China's potash supply and demand.

BHP Billiton launched a hostile bid for Potash Corp, the world's largest fertiliser producer.

I had left some Qian Cao to soak with some alum a couple of days before and when we added potash we got a lovely pink.

Analysis: Sinofert (297) is benefited from resumption of import of potash fertilizer.

Vale has plans for organic expansion in nickel, copper, coal and potash.

Canada and Belarus are the world's two biggest producers of potash.

Both countries extract potash, bromine, and salt from the water.

Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan Inc. formally rejected BHP Billiton's $38. 5 billion offer to acquire the fertilizer company.

Tartrate of antimony and potash, and tartrate of soda and potash.

It is having a harder time supporting the stock price of Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan.

Meanwhile, If hand over such huge market to foreign countries, potash on China's economic development is itself a big loss.

The prize is Belaruskali, a major world producer of potash.

In addition, Canpotex, the Canadian potash export cartel, has raised spot prices in Asia and Brazil.

China is the second-biggest importer of potash, a crop nutrient, after India.

Shares of Potash have surged above $150, signaling that investors expect a higher bid from BHP or a rival bidder.

Other Chinese bids for Potash Corp. could yet emerge.

Potash is used to improve the quality and yield of grain production.

But, as with oil, potash deposits are not evenly spread.

Prussian blue formed from prussite of potash and iron salt (copperas).

China, with 1. 3 billion people, could feel threatened by a potential BHP-Potash merger.

Effect of potash on yield and quality of Raphanus sativus L.

'The strategy is not just to buy potash, but to take direct stakes, ' the association said.

It consumes around a quarter of the 50m tonnes of potash produced in the world each year.

China imported about half of its potash last year, much of it from Canada and Russia.

The calls, according to the letter, came from Chris Ryder, director of potash marketing for BHP.

Potash Corp. already owns 22% of Sinochem's fertilizer unit.

At that level, the net present value of estimated future potash imports equals the NPV of the deal.

Insitu leaching mining of deeply buried polyhalite can alleviate severe shortages of potash resources in China.

The $39bn price tag on Potash is $14bn more than Sinochem's total assets at the end of 2009.

Types of potash fertilizers a.

Potash Corp stock rose in after-hours trade.

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Potash shares were up 1% in late morning trading Thursday.

BHP said in June its Jansen project in Saskatchewan contains about 3. 37 billion metric tons of potash.

On 2009 figures, BPC claims adding Silvinit would give it 44 per cent of global potash export trading.

Potash shareholders clearly remember that the stock touched a high of $240 in 2008.

That's where a secure supply of potash comes in.

Hence the big demand for potash.

But in 2009 demand for potash sagged along with the global economy.

Hot-process soapmaking was used when the purity of lye was unreliable, and this process can use natural lye solutions, such as potash.

Agricultural processors have shown more interest in crop nutrients such as potash than miners.

Mix the potash well with the water.

That means that Potash won't even have 90 days to find an alternative option.

In the 23 years Doyle has been working at Potash Corp. , he has been paid millions of stock options.

But the country is already a big importer of phosphates and especially potash.

Potash is set to boom, it insists.

PotashCorp reported a 56 per cent operating profit margin in potash in the first half of 2010.

The price of potash spiked to almost $1, 000 a tonne in mid-2008, from less than $150 a tonne in 2006.

But potash is different because there are fewer customers, the largest of which is China, Mr. Wall said.

Potash Corp. has been trolling for offers that can top BHP's bid.

BHP is trading at a forward price-to-earnings ratio of 9. 77 times, while Potash Corp. is trading at 27. 2 times.

Potash Corp. 's shares were little changed on Sept. 3 at $148. 50 in New York.

Potash's stock has been sliding since Sept.

According to the report, Qinghai Salt Lake Potash is the biggest producer of potassium chloride in China with 25% market share.

China is the world's largest importer of potash, a mineral that is used to enhance crop yields.

Potash moved into the spotlight in the 2007-08 food crisis, when prices hit $1, 000 a tonne, up from $150 a tonne in 2006.

In order to solve the potassium energy crisis, we need to development of insoluble potash ore resources, which is very important.

Shares of POT have a 0. 27% dividend yield, based on last night's closing stock price of $147. 13.

Potash shares closed at $143. 17, up $31. 02, or 27. 7%.

The offer from BHP was made in a letter Aug. 12 that Potash disclosed on Tuesday.

In our country, soluble potassic resources are limited badly, but we are rich ininsoluble potash ore resources.

Domestic production is 3m-4m tonnes annually, with potash demand last year of 7. 9m tonnes.

Production of biologic fertilizers, high-density fertilizers (potash fertilizer, phosphate fertilizer) and compound fertilizers

Trial of balanced application of potash fertilizer on tomato, cucumber, and eggplant, and its extension through demonstration

Conditions of groundwater recharge, runoff, drainage in Balunmahai potash mine area and its water and salt balance budgetary estimation

Research on Geological and Geochemical Characteristics of Paleo-Salt Rock and its Potash ore Formation in Western Tarim Basin

Experimental Research on Comprehensive Utilization of a Potash Feldspar Ore in Qinhai

Investigation and Scientific Research Progress and Exploitation Present Situation of Lop Nur Salty Lake Potash Deposits, Xinjiang, China

Petrogenesis of the Mesozoic potash rich volcanic rocks in the Luzong basin, Anhui Province: Geochemical constraints

Big- and medium-size high-density phospho-potash fertilizer and its compound fertilizer

Pulping of Wheat Straw with Caustic Potash-Ammonia Aqueous Solutions and Its Kinetics

The survey of potash feldspar resource in Anhui Province and its mutual sintering process

The Measurement of the Content of Potassium in Solid Potash Fertilizer Products by Radioactivity

The potash resources at home and abroad and current status of their exploitation and utilization

Risk Appraisal of the Silicon-Potash Fertilizer and Its Prospect

Potash-bearing Brine and Its Exploitation in Marine Triassic Gas Field Water in the Sichuan Basin

Analysis of Iron Removing and Purification from Feldspar Containing Potash and Sodium and Production practice

Field Effect Experiment on Applying Potash Fertilizer and Covering Grass in Cultivation of Edible Abelmoschus

The Influence of the Anion on Molten Salt Leaching Method Extracting Potassium from Potash Feldspar

Study of the Extraction of Potash from the Brine of Luobupo Salt Lake

Study on the Thermal Dissociation of Potash Feldspars to Produce Fertilizer Potassium Sulfate

Effects of potash fertilizer on nutrient absorption by peanut and its yield and benefit

Standard Test Method for Mercury in Caustic Soda (Sodium Hydroxide) and Caustic Potash (Potassium Hydroxide)

Test Methods for Chemical Analysis of Caustic Soda and Caustic Potash (Sodium Hydroxide and Potassium Hydroxide)

Study on Adsorption and Desorption Properties of Nano-kaoline to Nitrogen, Phosphorus, Potash and Organic Carbon

Post-collisional potash-rich volcanic rocks in the north margin of Dabie orogenic belt: geochemistry and petrogenesis

Dynamic Changes with Different Potash Fertilizers in Tobacco Field and Their Impact on the Quality of Tobacco Leaves

Rational Application Effect of Rare-earth Metal, Zinc and Compound Fertilizer of Nitrogen, Phosphorus and Potash on Rice Growth

Study on Iron Removal Processing of a Potash Feldspar Ores with High Iron

Characteristics and development prospect of potash feldspar ore in area on the boundary between Henan and Shaanxi

Ascending Brine Fluids in Quaternary Salty Lake of Lop Nur in Xinjiang and Their Significance in Potash Formation

Influences of phosphorus and potash fertilizers on yield of peppermint and their residual effects

Balance Fertilization and Potash Applying Effects of Rice in Middle Elevation Area of Southwest Guizhou

Application of ground gamma-ray spectrometric survey to prospecting for salt lake-type potash deposits

Potash Status in the Vegetable Garden Soil of Rural Haikou and Potassium Fertilizer Application Effect

Potassium Nutrition of Rubber Trees and Potash Fertilizer Application Effects in Hainan

Research on the Compatibility of Surfactants with Extractive Process of Potassium from Potash Feldspar

The Effect Relationship Between Nitrogen and Potash Fertilization for Winter Wheat in Middle-High Fertilizer Loamy Soil

Study on the effects of potash application on wheat-maize-sweet potato rotation cropping system in fixed upland

Research on preparing potassium compound fertilizer via roasting the mixtrue of potash feldspar with desulfurization ash

ammonium sulphate phosphate potash fertilizer

Brine geochemistry and prediction of potash formation at salt occurrences in the western Tarim basin

Geochemical Characteristics on Brine and Potash Perspective in the Western Tarim Basin

Molten Salt Leaching Method Extracting Potassium from Potash Feldspar

Treatment of methanation catalyst contaminated by potash liquid

Manage and Control Potash Fertilizer Scientifically and Realize the High and Stable Yield for Maize

An Approach to Exploitation and Utilizing of the Potash FeldsparDeposit in Dongyang, Zhejiang

Improve the flake caustic potash production process to reduce alkali dust pollution

The Preparation of Glass-ceramics Decorative Plate by Potash Feldspar Tailings