U.S. Imports:
November phosphate rock imports totaled 109,963 st, off 39.3 percent from the year-ago 181,082 st. July-November import volumes were reported at 1.16 million st, however, a 17.0 percent decrease on the year-ago 1.40 million st.
Kazakhstan:
EuroChem Group AG’s phosphate rock mining operations have not been affected by the violent protests that rocked parts of the country in recent days, a spokesperson for the company said on Jan. 12.
The Russian fertilizer group has operated a phosphate rock mining operation at the Kok-Jon phosphate deposit in the Karatau phosphate basin, in Kazakhstan’s Jhambyl region, since 2014 (GM July 21, 2014).
As Green Markets went to press, the situation in Kazakhstan was reported to be stabilizing, so much so that the Collective Security Treaty Organization peacekeepers – including Russia, which had been deployed to the country as the request of the Kazakhstan authorities – were making their preparations to leave.