Potash and phosphate: : Year in Review 2016

• Autores: Kasia Patel
• Localización: Industrial Minerals, ISSN 0019-8544, Nº. 589, 2016 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Diciembre/Enero)
• Idioma: inglés
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  • ...]UK AIM-listed Sirius Minerals Plc received government approval to develop facilities at Teesside port for the export of polyhalite fertiliser mineral from a mine in North Yorkshire - its last major required approval for the development of the project. MARKET DEMAND With tightening prices in the industry, both potash and phosphate producers continued to struggle, revealing declining revenues for full year 2015 results announced in January. ICL noted that 2015 had been a mixed year for fertiliser minerals, with an 18% increase in Chinese potash imports to 9.4m tonnes being offset by an overall decline in global shipments for potash and phosphate, as a result of lower crop prices, currency fluctuations and weak monsoon rains, and these trends continued into the first half of 2016. The country, which is the world's largest potash consumer, had enough stockpiled material to tide it over for the start of 2016, allowing it to.