Potassium/Potash:

Potash/Potassium Salts Potash is a mined material and is the basic building block for all potassium salts and potassium hydroxide.

Market Dynamics:

Potassium is one of the three key nutrients in fertilizer, with nitrogen and phosphorous being the other two. About 80% of all the potash mined goes into the fertilizer. Further, China and Brazil consume about  30% of all the potassium based fertilizers globally, thus fluctuations in their economy can greatly impact the availability of material for the chemical market.

Downstream materialsof Potassium/Potash include:

Potassium Acetate 

Potassium Bromate 

Potassium Carbonate

Potassium Chlorate

Potassium Chloride

Potassium Citrate 

Potassium Cyanide 

Potassium Dichromate 

Potassium Fluoride 

Potassium Gluconate 

Potassium Hydroxide 

Potassium Iodate 

Potassium Iodine
Potassium Nitrate

Potassium Permanganate 

Potassium Persulfate 

Potassium Phosphate

Potassium Sulfate 

Potassium thiocyanate

Companies include:

a) Potash Corp/Agrium Inc.

c) The Mosaic Company

d) BHP

e) Rio Tinto. 

f) Compass Minerals

g) Sirius Minerals Plc

h) Intrepid Potash.

i) Orocobre

j) Elemental Minerals

k) Reward Minerals.

l) South Boulder Mines Ltd.

m) Lithium Americas Corp.

n) Phoscan Chemical Corp.

o) Potash Minerals Limited

p) Encanto Potash Corp.