Mosaic Potash brings compaction plant on line

Carlsbad Current-Argus - There's a lot of shaking, rock and rolling and drying out going on at Mosaic Potash and it's bringing a big smile of satisfaction to plant engineers and contractors. The plant's new compaction plant has successfully come on line after two years of construction. The new six-story high compaction plant costing $36 million to build replaces the old compaction plant that was built sometime in the 1940s. The old compaction plant did not meet today's emission and health standards and was requiring a lot of maintenance. "The quality of this plant can now compete with any producer in the world," said Jim Johnson, mechanical engineer and surface operations manager. The Carlsbad mine produces two separate potassium minerals — sylvite, also known as muriate of potash, and langbeinite. It's the sylvite that goes to the compaction plant and where it is processed into a product that is sold to agriculture markers both at home and abroad. Read More News New Mexico

Mosaic Potash brings compaction plant on line