Industrial Minerals


Agrium phosphate and potash profit up in first quarter

04 May 2011

by Siobhan Lismore

Agrium posts profit despite fall in domestic demand for potash

Keywords: Agrium, phosphate, Potash, Brazil, Asia, Canada

Canada’s Agrium posted a $95m. profit in phosphate sales in the first quarter of this year – over five times the level reached in the same period last year.

The bullish figure was attributed to the higher realised sales price in Q1 2011, when compared to the price in Q1 2010. In the first three months of this year the group sold phosphate at $778/tonne, compared...