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Uralkali is a Russian potash fertilizer producer and exporter. It is traded on the London Stock Exchange and Moscow Exchange using the symbol, URKA. The Company’s assets consist of 5 mines and 7 ore-treatment mills situated in the towns of Berezniki and Solikamsk (Perm Region, Russian Federation). Uralkali employs ca.11,300 people (in the main production unit).
The company produces standard and granular potassium chloride (KCl) and supplies it (through its own trader Uralkali Trading) to over 60 countries, with the major markets including Brazil, India, China, Southeast Asia, Russia, USA, and Europe. In 2013 Uralkali produced 10 million tonnes of potash (KCl)
Uralkali develops Verkhnekamskoye field of potassium and magnesium salts, world's second largest in terms of potash ore reserves. The Company’s total ore reserves total approximately 8.2 billion tonnes. Uralkali holds the development licences for the Ust-Yayvinsky and Polovodovsky blocks at the Verkhnekamskoye field, which contain ore reserves of 1.291 and 3.074 billion tonnes respectively. Uralkali also holds the development licence for the Romanovsky Block of the Verkhnekamskoye deposit with the estimated reserves of 385 million tonnes of sylvinite ore.
As of 20 December 2013, Uralkali's shareholder structure is as follows: 33.26% free float, 21.75% ONEXIM Group, 19.99% UralChem, 12.5% Chengdong Investment Corporation, 12.5% treasury shares.