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Potash includes various mined and manufactured salts that contain potassium in water-soluble form. The name derives from pot ash, plant ashes or wood ash soaked in water in a pot, the primary means of manufacturing potash before the Industrial Era. The word potassium is derived from potash.
Sehnde is a town in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is located approximately 15 kilometres southeast of Hanover.
Berezniki is the second-largest city in Perm Krai, Russia. The city is located on the banks of the Kama River, in the Ural Mountains with a population of 137,091 as of 2021.
The Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan, also known as PotashCorp, was a company based in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. The company merged with Calgary-based Agrium to form Nutrien, in a transaction that closed on January 1, 2018.
Boulby Mine is a 200-hectare (490-acre) site located just south-east of the village of Boulby, on the north-east coast of the North York Moors in Loftus, North Yorkshire England. It is run by Cleveland Potash Limited, which is now a subsidiary of Israel Chemicals Ltd. (ICL).
Highway 316 is a provincial highway in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. The highway is in the RM of Blucher No. 343 and runs from Highway 16 near Clavet north to Highway 5. It is a primary weight highway and the land around it is an industrial and commercial area. The highway intersects with Highway 394 and the Canadian National and Canadian Pacific Railways. It is about 17 kilometres (11 mi) long.
Uralkali is a Russian potash fertilizer producer and exporter. It is traded on the Moscow Exchange using the symbol, URKA. The company's assets consist of five mines and seven ore-treatment mills situated in the towns of Berezniki and Solikamsk. Uralkali employs about 12,000 people.
Muskowekwan First Nation is a Saulteaux (Ojibway) First Nation who inhabit approximately 100 km northwest of Melville, Saskatchewan, Canada. As of May, 2008, the First Nation has 1,517 registered people, of which their on-reserve population was 400.
Belarus is a landlocked, generally flat country without natural borders, that occupies an area of 207,600 square kilometers (80,200 sq mi). Its neighbors are Russia to the east and northeast, Latvia to the north, Lithuania to the northwest, Poland to the west, and Ukraine to the south. Its extension from north to south is 560 km (350 mi), from west to east is 650 km (400 mi).
Mining in the United Kingdom produces a wide variety of fossil fuels, metals, and industrial minerals due to its complex geology. In 2013, there were over 2,000 active mines, quarries, and offshore drilling sites on the continental land mass of the United Kingdom producing £34bn of minerals and employing 36,000 people.
A swing producer or swing supplier is a supplier or a close oligopolistic group of suppliers of any commodity, controlling its global deposits and possessing large spare production capacity. A swing producer is able to increase or decrease commodity supply at minimal additional internal cost, and thus able to influence prices and balance the markets, providing downside protection in the short to middle term. Examples of swing producers include Saudi Arabia in oil, Russia in potash fertilizers, and, historically, the De Beers Company in diamonds.
The Aurora mine is the largest integrated phosphate mining and chemical plant in the world. The mine is located in Richland Township, in Aurora in Beaufort County, North Carolina. The mine, has been owned by PotashCorp since 1995, has an annual production capacity of over six million tonnes of phosphate ore. In 2008 the mine produced 6.6 million tonnes of phosphate ore from which 1.3 million tonnes of phosphoric acid was produced.
Chandler is a rural locality between Merredin and Mukinbudin in the Wheatbelt region of Western Australia. It had a population of 104 at the 2006 census.
The Frumoasa-Tazlău mine is a large potash mine located in eastern Romania in Bacău County, close to Balcani. Frumoasa-Tazlău represents one of the largest potash reserves in Romania having estimated reserves of 200 million tonnes of ore grading 10% potassium chloride metal.
The Gârcina mine is a large potash mine located in eastern Romania in Neamț County, close to Gârcina. Gârcina represents one of the largest potash reserves in Romania having estimated reserves of 300 million tonnes of ore grading 10% potassium chloride metal.
The Colluli mine is a large potash mine located in southern Eritrea. Colluli represents one of the largest potash reserves in Eritrea having estimated reserves of 1.08 billion tonnes of ore grading 18% potassium chloride metal.
The Ulur mine is one of the largest graphite mines in Russia and in the world. The mine is located in the east of the country in Sakha Republic. The mine has estimated reserves of 10 million tonnes of ore 30% graphite.
The Talitsky mine is a large mine located in the Perm Krai. Talitsky represents one of the largest potash reserves in Russia having estimated reserves of 1.62 billion tonnes of ore grading 19.2% potassium chloride.
The Udon North Mine is a large potash mine in northern Thailand in Udon Thani Province. The project is approximately 15-20 kilometres southeast of the city of Udon Thani. The project area, including Udon South Mine, covers five sub-districts including Non Sung, Nong Phai, and Nong Khon Kwang of Mueang Udon Thani District together with Huai Sam Phat and Na Muang Sub-districts of Prachaksinlapakhom District. Northeast Thailand is believed to contain the world's third-largest—after Canada and Russia—unexploited potash reserves.
Synnyr is a mountain massif in Irkutsk Oblast and Buryatia, Russian Federation. The range is part of the Baikal Rift Zone.
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