Matthias Mohr, CEO of K+S Chile SA, tells IM about the current position of the company within the salt business in South America and worlwide. South America is free of the big winter variations we see in Europe and North America. Our presence in Chile and other 'south cone' markets is stable, growing with better presence in retail, specialities and chemical markets. Markets like Colombia, Peru and Brazil have a growing middle class, customers of a better quality brand products. K+S, with the brand icon "The Morton Umbrella Girl", Sal Lobos Biosal in Chile and top-brands in Europe, is best positioned to serve these growing retail markets. In the big volume segments like chemical salt we are the cost efficient stable source in Latin America. Canadian potash producer Pacific Potash Corp. (PPC) appointed Harrison Cookenboo as geological consultant. Cookenboo will develop PPC's Amazonas Potash. Cookenboo replaces Andre Costa, who resigned as chief geologist of the company at the end of February this year. PPC also appointed Joel Mendes Renno' [Stephen Zelnak Jr.] as special advisor of the company. PPC also appointed John Santos as general manager of its Brazilian subsidiary, Potassio Ocidental.
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Dan Norrgran, Eriez' Minerals and Materials Processing division manager, passed away unexpectedly on 16 October 2012. Norrgran was employed at Eriez, the mineral processing equipment specialist, for 27 years and was a member of several professional associations, including the Canadian Institute of Metallurgy and the International Minerals Association He contributed greatly to growing global equipment sales for Eriez in the mining, industrial minerals and coal processing industries. In 2004 he was awarded Eriez' Person of the Year for "managing the mineral processing division to its present key position within [the company's] worldwide operations". PhosAgro CEO Maxim Volkov has been elected chairman of the Apatit board of directors, while PhosAgro AG's CEO, Mikhail Rybnikov, was elected deputy chairman. Phosphate producer PhosAgro signed a purchase agreement for the Russian Federation's share in nepheline syenite producer OJSC Apatit in October.
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2013 was a tough year for Orbite, but we have turned a corner. Things are going well and are on track. The first challenge and priority is finalising our high purity alumina (HPA) facility. That presents a list of challenges, but we are tackling them very well and are giving ourselves a 12-month timeline, following the raising of equity financing. We started on the HPA building in January this year. Priority number one is putting the first HPA plant into commercial production at the beginning of 2015, ramping it up to 3tpd in the first quarter of next year and finding commercial contracts with our potential customers, with whom we are discussing right now. The HPA facility is actually a cornerstone for the other commercial activities, notably the waste monetisation. In 2015 we'll be converting and finalising the HPA facility to the chloride-based technology. The facility will become an industrial demo for our technology platform. It will then be used to finalise the design, and be able to bring in the red mud, fly ash or other mine tailings that we are looking at. The scaled-up plant will allow us to finalise the design of the first industrial in-situ plant. Australian rare earths producer, Lynas Corp., appointed Amanda Lacaze as CEO. Amanda takes over from Eric Noyrez, who served as CEO for just over a year, leading the start-up of the company's rare earths mine at Mount Well, Australia. Lacaze was previously CEO of Commander Communications and executive chairman of Orion Telecommunications.
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The need for rare earths has been growing for 60-70 years. These little elements are in all of our electronic products. I wondered for a while if we would come to see good conditions in the market that would support any rare earths project. A few years back and I may not have been interested in TRER's Round Top project, with its unusual Round Top's benchwork testing suggests that leaching will be easy, which is important to project economics. The tests indicate rare earth recoveries in the 90% region. It also has a 3:1 heavy to light rare earth ratio, which is a sound base for a rare earths project. The local infrastructure network is very good - Round Top will have access to all the chemicals, power and water that it needs. Finally, I envisage a heavy rare earth supply gap emerging in the next five years. Shi Dongshen is to join H J Baker & Bro at the company's Shanghai, China offices. Dongshen joins following the recent opening of H J Baker's Lianyungang sulphur-bentonite plant.
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