Potash Corp of Saskatchewan up 6.3 percent
The materials sector was up 1 percent with fertilizer company Potash Corp of Saskatchewan the top net gainer, up 6.3 percent at C$91.00. For full story, click here
Archive for December, 2008
PotashCorp: Q4 earning expected to be higher
The company’s fourth-quarter earnings are expected to be the third-highest in its history (behind only the second and third quarter 2008) and full-year 2008 earnings will be the fifth consecutive record year and should be more than triple the $3.40 per share earned in 2007. For full story, click here
PotashCorp Revises 2008 Full-Year Guidance
Fourth-quarter earnings are expected to be the third-highest in our history (behind only the second and third quarter 2008) and full-year 2008 earnings will be our fifth consecutive record year and should be more than triple the $3.40 per share earned in 2007. For full story, click here
Raytec Metals Corp.: Drilling Completed on the ‘El Sol’
Raytec Metals Corp. is pleased to announce the completion of the 2008 fall drill program on its 100% owned El Sol property near Red Lake, Ontario. For full story, click here
Intercontinental Potash awarded all federal potassium prospecting permits
Shares of Trigon Uranium doubled in value Wednesday after the company announced that Intercontinental Potash, owned 38% by Trigon, has been awarded all federal potassium prospecting permits in the State of New Mexico, which the company had applied for earlier this year. For full story, click here
Western Potash Corp. Reports Results From the Sixth and Seventh Exploration Wells on the Russell-Miniota Property
Western Potash Corp. is pleased to announce that it has received results from its sixth and seventh potash exploration wells drilled in the southern portion of permit QP-168 and in permit QP-172 located to the south and contiguous with QP-168, the “Miniota area”, in south-western Manitoba, as part of the expanded Phase I drill program [...]
Potash One’s First Resource Confirms Well Intersects
Potash One’s First Resource Confirmation Well Intersects a Total of 39.6 Meters of Potash Mineralization With Average Grade of 18.3% K2O. For full story, click here
Potash prices will continue to rise
Potash prices have risen in recent years and that trend is expected to continue. For full story, click here
POTASH: The Contrarian Commodity
Potash is increasingly essential in the agricultural sector’s growing intensity of use of fertilizer, given the inexorable pressures for higher crop yields per hectare, i.e. phosphorous (P, from phosphate rock), potash (K, from K2O salt), and nitrogen (N) which are the principal elements contained in commercial fertilizer. For full story, click here
Potash One awards pre-feasibility study contract
Potash One Inc. has awarded a pre-feasibility study contract on its Legacy project in southern Saskatchewan to a leading engineering firm. For full story, click here
