Uralkali


Uralkali is a Russian potash fertilizer producer and exporter. It is traded on the Moscow Exchange using the symbol, URKA. The Company’s assets consist of 5 mines and 7 ore-treatment mills situated in the towns of Berezniki and Solikamsk (Perm Territory, Russian Federation). Uralkali employs ca.11,000 people (in the main production unit).

The company produces standard and granular potassium chloride (KCl) and supplies it (through its own trader Uralkali Trading) to over 60 countries, with the major markets including Brazil, India, China, Southeast Asia, Russia, USA, and Europe. In 2015 Uralkali produced 11.4 million tonnes of potash (KCl).

Uralkali develops Verkhnekamskoye field of potassium and magnesium salts, world's second largest in terms of potash ore reserves. The Company’s total ore reserves total approximately 8.2 billion tonnes. Uralkali holds the development licences for the Ust-Yayvinsky and Polovodovsky blocks at the Verkhnekamskoye field, which contain ore reserves of 1.291 and 3.074 billion tonnes respectively. Uralkali also holds the development licence for the Romanovsky Block of the Verkhnekamskoye deposit with the estimated reserves of 385 million tonnes of sylvinite ore.

As of 5 October 2016, Uralkali's shareholder structure is as follows: 5.61% free float, 20.00% Rinsoco Trading Co. Limited, 19.99% UralChem, 54.40% Quasi-treasury shares.

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The owners of Uralkali suck the company dry

Business15.04.2020

Dmitry Rybolovlev “took off” the money and drove off to Monaco, “scoring” it for an environmental and social catastrophe. And the son of Dmitry Mazepin spins at parties during the mourning for the dead miners, while dad brings the strategic company to permanent losses.

Dmitry Mazepin faces potassium deficiency

Business11.10.2019

One of the largest enterprises in the domestic mineral fertilizer industry, a group controlled by Dmitry Mazepin, which includes the companies Uralchem and Uralkali, which provide 28% of the GDP of the Russian chemical industry, is probably close to bankruptcy.

Dmitry Mazepin brought Uralkali and Uralchem to bankruptcy

Business10.10.2019

Experts from the analytical center A.I.T.T. have identified record negative net assets in oligarch companies and schemes for withdrawing money to Latvia.

Uralkali became toxic due to Sergey Chemezov

Business10.10.2019

The head of Rostec, as the chairman of the board of directors of the potash company, pulls it to the sanctions bottom.

Uralkali chases Formula 1 in the court of London

Business23.07.2019

In London, the process began on the claim of the Russian company against the bankruptcy trustees of Force India.

Dmitry Mazepin lost in Solikamsk

Business24.12.2018

On Saturday, a fire at the Uralkali mine took the lives of nine people.

German Gref climbed into Uralkali

Business06.12.2018

For 25.7 billion rubles, the State Bank has acquired a 10% stake in a friend of Dmitry Mazepin.

Dmitry Rybolovlev released under judicial supervision

Society08.11.2018

The owner of the club "Monaco" has not yet begun to throw behind bars.

Dmitry Mazepin arranged a race for the team "Formula 1" Force India

Business27.09.2018

"Uralkali" challenged the court results of the competition for the purchase of the team "Formula 1". Oligarch Mazepin planned to acquire a team for his son, acting as a racer.

Currency debts of "Uralkali" chained the company to the financial bottom

Business30.08.2018

Despite the growth in revenue in the first half of 2018, the producer of potash fertilizers showed an "accounting loss" in rubles. It was the result of huge currency debts of the company Dmitry Mazepin, which reached 5.4 billion dollars and because of the fall in the ruble rate ruined the financial statistics.

Russian oligarchs repelled the first onslaught of the Kremlin

Business24.08.2018

Following the meeting of the owners of metallurgical and chemical companies with the presidential aide, Andrei Belousov, it was decided that 513 billion rubles should not be paid. The size of the "tribute" fell to 200-300 billion rubles under the sauce "investment in infrastructure."

Dmitry Mazepin could not buy Sahara Force India F1 Team for his son

Business22.08.2018

The British-based team left for Canadian businessmen, and the owner of Uralkali was unable to spend money withdrawn from the Russian Federation for barter quirks.

Eurochem found the first buyer for potassium in China

Business13.07.2018

Experts differed in opinion, whether it can lead to decrease in prices for potash fertilizers.

Football Club Rybolovleva earned € 500 million on the sale of players

Business11.07.2018

Vice-president of "Monaco" Vadim Vasiliev at a lecture at the business school RMA told how the club functions where the star of the French national team Kiliana Mbappa was raised.

Rybolovlev is negotiating the purchase of a football club

Business10.07.2018

Italian media called Dmitry Rybolovlev one of the contenders for the football club Milan. But more chances to become the owner of the club from the American hedge fund Elliot Management, issued last year a loan for the purchase of "Milan" from the family of Silvio Berlusconi.

Dmitry Rybolovlev invested half a billion dollars in US startups

Business18.06.2018

Former owner of Uralkali and possible investigator of the investigation of Robert Mueller Dmitry Rybolovlev for several years invested several hundred million dollars in American startups related to biotechnology and medicine.

Uralkali cut its profit by 40%

Business04.04.2018

but expects a rise in potash prices this year.

Dmitry Mazepin is crushed by debts

Business26.02.2018

The owner of Uralkhim and Uralkali was de facto bankrupt.

The rise and fall of Dmitry Rybolovlev

Business25.12.2017

The collapse of the former owner of Uralkali may hit important figures in the administrations of Russia and the United States.

The picture of Da Vinci belonging to Rybolovlev went for a record amount

Business16.11.2017

During the auction at Christie's auction, Leonardo da Vinci's "Savior of the World" went up four times and was sold for 450.3 million dollars. The canvas belonged to Russian billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev, he bought it for $ 127 million.

Oligarch of the Permian period

Business28.09.2017

Over the last 6 years, Russian oligarch Dmitry Rybolovlev has spent from 4 to 5 billion dollars on art, real estate and football club. When the ex-owner of Uralkali ran out of funds, he was asked to leave Monaco.

Dmitry Rybolovlev is declared persona non grata in Monaco

Business25.09.2017

President and owner of the football club "Monaco", Dmitry Rybolovlev, may be forced to leave the small principality because of a corruption scandal.

Billionaire Rybolovlev is aware of the collapse of the "Swiss Tesla", but is still interested in energy storages

Business24.08.2017

The investment of the owner of FC Monaco in Alevo, the developer of energy storage systems based on lithium batteries, was estimated at $36 million.

Dmitry Rybolovlev failed to sell the canvas by El Greco at a discount of 88%

Society15.07.2017

In total, the billionaire invested about $2 billion in art works, having purchased 38 works, including paintings by Picasso and Leonardo da Vinci.

Oligarch Rybolovlev became a companion of the drug lord Cappelen

Business23.03.2017

Ex-owner of Uralkali will launder the criminal money in dubious company Alevo.

Dmitry Rybolovlev challenged the sharks of the art market

Business23.03.2017

The billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev sued one of the most famous entrepreneurs in the global art market, Swiss Yves Bouvier, with claims amounting to more than half a billion dollars.

Rybolovlev invested in batteries

Business22.03.2017

The former owner of Uralkali Dmitry Rybolovlev invested 35 million Swiss francs in the startup Alevo, engaged in the development of industrial electricity storage technologies.

Suleiman Kerimov has exhausted his luck

Business13.03.2017

Oligarch Karimov could change his assets in Russia for a peaceful old age in Europe.