Industrial Minerals


IM Global Potash Roundup: 23 – 30 May

30 May 2012

by Jack Elliott

A brief look at the rest of the week’s stories in the news

Keywords: Agrium, Western Potash, Belarusian Potash Co., Uralkali, Vladimir Putin, Passport Potash

Saskatchewan-based Agrium Inc. has been fined $420,000 for a workplace accident that killed an employee, according to CanadianBusiness.

A report found that the death of 59-year-old employee Edward Artic, who died in 2010 working as an electrician at the company’s Vanscoy potash mine, was preventable, adding that conditions at the worksite did not meet provincial standards.

Agrium has since made changes to prevent such an accident...