Other Nonmetallic Mineral Mining and Quarrying Companies

Potash, Soda, and Borate Mineral Mining

This U.S. industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in developing the mine site, mining and/or milling, or otherwise beneficiating (i.e., preparing) natural potassium, sodium, or boron compounds. Drylake brine operations are included in this industry, as well as establishments engaged in producing the specified minerals from underground and open pit mines. This Sub-Section includes: Alum, Borate, Borax, Boron compounds, Boron, Colemanit, Glauber's salt, Kernite, Muriate of potash, Potash, Potassium bromide, Potassium chloride, Potassium compounds, Potassium salts, Probertit, Salines, Soda ash, Sodium borates, Sodium carbonates, Sodium sulfate, Sulfate, Trona, Ulexite

• The Arab Potash Company (APC) - Amman - Jordan - The Arab Potash Company (APC) is a pan Arab company formed in 1956 and was given a concession from the Government of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan to exploit, manufacture and market the resources of the Dead Sea for 100 years. APC is one of the world's leaders in producing Potassium Chloride (MOP) / Fertilizer grade (2 million MTPY) and Industrial grade Potash (100,000 TPY).
• Belaruskali - "Production Amalgamation "Belaruskali" - Soligorsk, Republic of Belarus - Republican unitary enterprise "Production Amalgamation "Belaruskali" is one of the world's biggest producers and it is the biggest producer and supplier of potash mineral fertilizers on the territory of the CIS. Functioning on the basis of the Starobin deposit of the potash salts, PA "Belaruskali" comprises the four mine and refinery complexes. Each of the four mine and refinery complexes comprises a mine to mine the potash ore and the dressing factory to process it and to produce the mineral potash fertilizers in the form of fine, fine crystallized and granulated concentrate of the potassium chloride, as well as the mixed potash salt.
• FMC Industrial Chemicals - Philadelphia, PA, USA - FMC Industrial Chemicals is a low-cost producer of inorganic chemicals with No. 1 market positions in North American Soda Ash, Hydrogen Peroxide and Persulfates. Alkali Chemicals division is the world’s largest producer of natural soda ash and the market leader in North America. We are a mining and production leader, having developed and implemented multiple proprietary, low-cost mining technologies.
• General Chemical Industrial Products Inc. - East Hanover, New Jersey, USA - General Chemical is one of the world's leading and most experienced producers of soda ash. We supply an essential raw material used to make a range of familiar everyday products, such as glass, soap, powdered detergent, paper, textiles, and even food. We've produced soda ash for more than 100 years and are currently one of the Top 5 global producers. Our breadth of practical experience and ever increasing production efficiency in mining and processing ensures we produce high-quality soda ash.
• ICL Fertilizers, (Dead Sea Works) - Beer Sheva, Israel - Dead Sea Works, a business unit of ICL Fertilizers, is the world's fourth largest producer and supplier of potash products, as well as a broad range of chemical products, including magnesium chloride, anhydrous aluminum chloride, industrial salts, de-icers, bath salts, table salt and raw materials for the cosmetic industry. Our Dead Sea facilities in Israel are a unique natural resource, situated at the lowest point on the planet, in a region of unspoiled beauty and splendor.
• Intrepid Mining LLC - Denver, Colorado, USA - Intrepid Mining LLC has become the largest producer of potash (potassium chloride) in the United States. In addition, it produces three valuable byproducts: Solar Salt, Magnesium Chloride brine and Sulfate of Potash Magnesia. Headquartered in Denver, Colorado, Intrepid Mining LLC has two production facilities in Utah and three in New Mexico. These subsidiaries are named: Intrepid Potash Moab, Intrepid Potash Wendover, and Intrepid Potash New Mexico.
• JSC Silvinit - Perm Region, Russian Federation - Joint stock company "sylvinite" - the largest Russian mining complex in output and production of potassium fertilizers and different is specific salts. Site in Russian.
• K+S KALI GmbH - Kassel, Germany - K+S KALI GmbH is your world-wide partner in potash and magnesium products which find their uses in agriculture and industry.  K+S Kali GmbH, operating six mines in Germany, is a major global potash supplier and the world's largest producer of potassium sulphate (K2SO4) and magnesium sulphate (MgSO4) products. While Germany was the cradle of the potash industry, K+S Kali GmbH today utilizes leading edge technology in all its mines and above ground plants.
• Phosphate Resource PLP - Phosphate Resource Partners Limited Partnership (PLP), through its joint venture investment in IMC Phosphates Company, is one of the world's largest and lowest-cost producers, marketers and distributors of phosphate crop nutrients and animal feed ingredients, with operations in central Florida and on the Mississippi River in Louisiana.
• PotashCorp - Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada - PotashCorp is the world's largest fertilizer enterprise, by capacity, producing the three primary plant nutrients (potash, phosphate and nitrogen). We are the world’s largest potash company, with 22 percent of the world’s overall capacity and 75 percent of the world’s unused capacity.  PotashCorp has corporate offices in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, and Northbrook, Illinois. We also have production facilities in five countries.
• Rio Tinto Borax - Rio Tinto Borax operates California’s largest open pit mine in Boron, California - one of the richest borate deposits on the planet. The company supplies nearly half the world’s demand for refined borates, minerals essential to life and modern living. Borax traces its roots to California’s Death Valley, where borate deposits were discovered in 1872. The twenty mule teams Borax used to haul ore out of the remote desert live on as a symbol of the company’s commitment to innovation.
• Rio Tinto Limited - Melbourne, Australia - Rio Tinto is a world leader in finding, mining and processing the earth's mineral resources. Major products include aluminium, copper, diamonds, energy products (coal and uranium), gold, industrial minerals (borax, titanium dioxide, salt, talc and zircon), and iron ore.
• Searles Valley Minerals - Overland Park, Kansas, USA - Searles Valley Minerals is headquartered in Overland Park, Kansas and manages extensive operations in California's Searles Valley. Searles Valley Minerals provides customers worldwide with soda ash, sodium sulfate, and boron minerals from the desert of the western United States. Its advanced solution mining and crystallization techniques yield approximately two million tons of these minerals each year. These minerals are necessary to the manufacturing of a wide variety of goods essential to modern life: glass, ceramics, carbonated beverages, animal feed, paper products, and detergents-to name only a few.
• Solvay S.A. - BRUXELLES | Belgium - Solvay is the leading worldwide supplier of SODA ASH with a strong industrial and commercial presence in Europe, North America, South America, Asia, Middle East and Africa. Solvay operates 8 soda ash plants in the world : Greenriver,WY, US is a Trona based plant and the 7 European plants are operating the Solvay Ammonia based process.