China's largest potassium chloride product producer, Salt Lake Potash Director Zhang Jiwen, said in a telephone interview with the reporter that the company’s 2009 total potassium chloride production was 2.14 million tons, and it is expected that the annual production in 2010 will increase by more than 10% year-on-year and exceed 2.35 million. Ton.
According to the 2010 intermediate report of Salt Lake Potash, the amount of resource taxes in the first half of the year was 145 million yuan, a year-on-year increase of 3.94%, due to the resource tax standard of 135 yuan/ton, from which it was estimated that the company produced about 108 potassium chloride in the first half of the year. Ton, an increase of 3.94% year-on-year. Based on this, it is expected that the company's potassium chloride production in the second half of 2010 will exceed 1.27 million tons, an increase of more than 14% year-on-year.
In addition, Zhang Jiwen said that a large amount of rainfall in the mountains previously supplemented the company's production of fresh water for the next two or three years, and dissolved more potassium minerals in the company's mining area, raising the potassium concentration of the brine, but Zhang Jiwen said that it is difficult at present. Simply estimate the increase in potassium resources.
According to Zhang Jiwen, Salt Lake Potash Fertilizer is located in the Salt Lake, a modern salt chemical depositional ore deposit. Salt lake potassium-magnesite deposits are divided into two types: liquid minerals and solid minerals, mainly liquid minerals. All along, Salt Lake Potash has extracted potassium chloride through liquid minerals.
The liquid potassium ore mainly exists in the sodium salt layer in the intergranular brine form. According to Zhang Jiwen, the company has found 147 million tons of liquid potassium chloride in the Qarhan Salt Lake, and the solid potassium mineral resources amount is 2.96. Billion tons. Most of the required fresh water comes from snow-melting mountains, and the demand for fresh water depends on the nature of the day.
CITIC Securities Liu Xuming believes that a large amount of precipitation brought about 300 million cubic meters of water resources for salt lakes and potash fertilizers in the mining areas. Large amounts of precipitation caused the “natural solid-liquid transformation” to increase the amount of potassium resources, and reenacted the “Brines” after 1998 floods. Increased potassium production."
In this regard, Zhang Jiwen said that rainfall will improve the quality of ore, but will not have a direct impact on the 2010 production, because the corresponding device has not increased.
