{"id":8492,"date":"2025-08-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prosalt.co\/salt-blog\/vl-mineracao-buys-brazils-only-operating-potash-mine\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T00:00:00","slug":"vl-mineracao-buys-brazils-only-operating-potash-mine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prosalt.co\/ar\/salt-blog\/vl-mineracao-buys-brazils-only-operating-potash-mine\/","title":{"rendered":"VL Minera\u00e7\u00e3o Buys Brazil\u2019s Only Operating Potash Mine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>VL Minera\u00e7\u00e3o has agreed to acquire Mosaic\u2019s Taquari-Vassouras potash mine in Sergipe for $27 million. The mine is Brazil\u2019s only active source of potassium chloride, a vital fertilizer mineral of which the country imports 90% of its needs.<\/p>\n<p>The new owners have committed $25 million in capital investments to extend operations and assume $22 million in decommissioning obligations. The sale comes as Mosaic redeploys capital to higher-return opportunities amid shifting global fertilizer demand.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VL Minera\u00e7\u00e3o has agreed to acquire Mosaic\u2019s Taquari-Vassouras potash mine in Sergipe for $27 million. The mine is Brazil\u2019s only active source of potassium chloride, a vital fertilizer mineral of which the country imports 90% of its needs. The new owners have committed $25 million in capital investments to extend operations and assume $22 million [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8074,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prosalt.co\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prosalt.co\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prosalt.co\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prosalt.co\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prosalt.co\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prosalt.co\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prosalt.co\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prosalt.co\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prosalt.co\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prosalt.co\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}