Industrial Minerals


Verde Potash doubles inferred resource to 2.7bn potash

12 January 2012

by Alex Feytis

Cerrado could “support large scale production of multiple potash products”

Keywords: Verde Potash, Brazil, Minas Gerais, ThermoPotash, phosphate, limestone, potash, Cerrado Verde

Verde Potash Plc has doubled its inferred resource at its Cerrado Verde Potash project in Minas Gerais state, Brazil, to 2.68bn tonnes at 8.8% K2O, the Brazilian company reported on Wednesday.

According to Verde Potash, the estimate comprises an indicated resource of 74m tonnes with an average grade of 9.22% K2O. This is the same as the previous estimate.

The update, which comes as...