Russian potash miner Silvinit <SILV.RTS> has won approval from its shareholders to borrow up to $2 billion to pay for a licence to develop part of the world's No. 2 deposit of the mineral fertiliser.

Silvinit <SILV.MM>, Russia's largest potash producer, has agreed not to increase domestic potash prices before the end of the year after complaints from consumers and a warning from the market ...

Uralkali and Silvinit. Potash is major ingredient in agricultural fertilisers, and Russia has the second largest deposits of the naturally occurring mineral in the world. The combined company will ...

OAO Silvinit and OAO Uralkali, Russia’s largest potash producers, fell after the government said it may impose a 15 percent tax on exports of the mineral used to make fertilizer.

On 2009 figures, BPC claims adding Silvinit would give it 44 per cent of global potash export trading. The logic of the deal is thus obvious to anyone who got past the first week of Economics 101.

Uralkali offered to acquire 20% of Silvinit for $1.4bn and complete the tie-up through a share swap. The move would create the world's second-largest potash producer by volume, behind Canada's ...

Russia's Silvinit, which is based in the region of Perm, is one of the world's biggest producers of potash.

Shareholders of Russian fertilizer producers Uralkali and Silvinit have approved the companies' $1.4 billion merger, to create the world's second largest potash producer after Potash Corp. of ...

Uralkali, OAO Silvinit and OOO Mineral Trading raised potash prices for domestic producers of complex fertilizers to 4,750 rubles a ton from the second half of last year, the service said in a ...

Reuters reported that Russian potash miners Uralkali (URKA.MM) and Silvinit (SILV.MM) expect to produce a combined 10.6 million tonnes of potash this year, up from 10.3 million tonnes in 2010.

A Russian billionaire set the terms on Monday for a merger of Russia's top two producers of potash, Uralkali and Silvinit to create the world's No. 2 player. The deal marks another step in ...