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The Arab Potash Company is located 110 km (68 mi) south of Amman and 200 km (120 mi) north of Aqaba.The site is basically a solar evaporation pond system of an area of 112 m 2 (1,210 sq ft) and processing plants.
Fertilizer use is the main driver behind potash consumption, especially for its use in fertilizing crops that contribute to high-protein diets. [22]: 23 As of at least 2010, more than 95% of potash is mined for use in agricultural purposes. [22]: 24 Elemental potassium does not occur in nature because it reacts violently with water. [34]
Dead Sea Works is the world's fourth-largest producer and supplier of potash products. [6] The company also produces magnesium chloride, industrial salts, de-icers, bath salts, table salt, and raw materials for the cosmetic industry. [6] It has customers in over 60 countries. Dead Sea Works is part of the Fertilizers Division of Israel ...
JPMC runs the Indo-Jordan Chemicals, co-owned with Southern Petrochemical Industries of India and The Arab Investment Company of Saudi Arabia.. JPMC runs the Nippon Jordan Fertilizer Company, a joint venture with the Arab Potash Company and a consortium of Japanese companies (ZEN-NOH, Mitsubishi Corporation, Mitsubishi Chemical, Asahi Kasei).
The company was the world's largest potash producer and the third largest producer of nitrogen and phosphate, three primary crop nutrients used to produce fertilizer. At the end of 2011, the company controlled twenty percent of the world's potash production capacity, two percent of nitrogen production capacity and five percent of phosphate ...
All the world's bromine production is derived from brine. The majority is recovered from Dead Sea brine at plants in Israel and Jordan, where bromine is a byproduct of potash recovery. Plants in the United States (see: Bromine production in the United States), China, Turkmenistan, and Ukraine, recover bromine from subsurface brines. In India ...
The location is known as Potash on U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) topographic maps, and is east of Dead Horse Point State Park and Canyonlands National Park. [4] According to USGS reports, the Paradox Basin contains up to 2.0 billion tons (1.8 billion metric tonnes) of potash, with the primary mine being the one at Kane Creek. [5]
The Port of Fujairah has a strategic location being connected to all the emirates within 300 km (190 mi) and located on the only eastern seaboard of the United Arab Emirates. [4] Fujairah location as a bunkering hub occurred as a result of the Iran–Iraq War in the 1980s, when the Strait of Hormuz was mined by the Iranian military and tankers ...