New high for the day 14.75 / 15p + 1.50p

with 7.3m shares traded and not yet 10am

15p +1.675p
after 15.25p Intraday high

Many other stocks around the world also rising on good news from the Indian Goverment .........


"Syngenta had its biggest gain in almost three weeks today as fertilizer stocks in India, the worlds second-most populous nation, rallied after Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee said the government will give cash to the poor to buy fertilizers."

bloomberg syngenta-mosaic-favored-as-sam-s-agribusiness-fund-in-zurich-sees-a-peak

After the last couple days of profit taking, there was a large volume this morning and now ready for better things

SXX showing as 13.62p but is already 14p

The Directors of Sirius Minerals Plc (AIM: SXX, OTCQX: SRUXY), are pleased to announce that the Company has completed a placing to raise gross proceeds of 20 million (the "Placing").

A total of 153,846,153 new ordinary shares have been placed at a price of 0.13 per share with certain institutional and other investors in the United Kingdom, the United States and Australia. Application has been made for Placing Shares to be admitted to trading on AIM and trading in such shares is expected to commence on or around 16 March 2011. The Placing Shares have been placed under the existing authorities granted by shareholders at the Company's last annual general meeting.

Further to the issue of a total of 625,000 options to Southern Star Investment Plc in May 2009, Sirius Minerals Plc (AIM: SXX, OTCQX: SRUXY) announces that it has received an Exercise Notice in relation to these options. Therefore, the Company has issued and allotted 625,000 new Ordinary Shares of 0.25p per share ("Ordinary Shares") at 4.5p per share raising a total of 28,125. The monies will be used for general working capital purposes.

Application will be made for the 625,000 new Ordinary Shares, which will rank pari passu with the Company's existing Ordinary Shares, to be admitted to trading on AIM and trading in such shares is expected to commence on or around 22 March 2011.

Sirius Minerals Plc

("Sirius" or the "Company")

Initial Planning Applications Approved

The Directors of Sirius Minerals Plc (AIM: SXX, OTCQX: SRUXY), the globally diversified potash development group, are pleased to announce the approval by the North York Moors National Park Authority of the planning applications for the first two drill sites for the York Potash Project.

In a meeting held today (16th June) in Helmsley, North Yorkshire, the North York Moors National Park Planning Committee met to consider the first two of up to 10 drill site applications. The Members of the Committee approved the applications following the positive Officers' recommendation. The approval today was granted by a vote of the Members and the Company will be officially notified in writing in the coming days.

A further three applications have also been submitted prior to this meeting for consideration and are due to be consulted upon in the normal course of the planning process. These applications were not put before this meeting of the Committee as the consultation process is not yet complete.

Chris Fraser, Managing Director and CEO of Sirius, said:
"We are extremely pleased to be moving forward with our drilling programme. We believe the York Potash Project is world-class and of significant national importance to the United Kingdom. This drilling programme will help us define further the extent and quality of the potash deposit. It is our intent to commence site preparation works and then drilling as soon as practicable.

"The delivery of the approvals is in no small part due to the prompt and professional attention which our applications have received from the National Park Authority. We look forward to a continued and similarly professional association with the Officers and Members over the forthcoming years as we push forward with the York Potash Project."
For further information, please contact:
Sirius Minerals Plc

Chris Fraser
(MD & CEO)
Tel: +44 7582711382 or

+61 404 073 288
Andrew Lindsay
(FD & CFO)
Tel: +44 20 7917 2800

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About Sirius Minerals Plc

Sirius Minerals is a globally diversified potash development company. Its primary focus is to bring on stream major potash mining facilities through the acquisition and development of projects overlying recognised potash deposits. Today it holds properties in the United Kingdom (North Yorkshire), the United States (North Dakota), and Australia (Queensland and Western Australia).

The Company is additionally progressing ongoing Research and Development initiatives into the secondary uses of salt and potash beds for energy storage and carbon dioxide sequestration.

Incorporated in 2003, Sirius Minerals' shares are traded on the London Stock Exchange's AIM market. Its shares are also traded in the United States on the OTCQX through the use of a sponsored ADR facility. Further information on the Company can be found at www.siriusminerals.com

A rebound must be overdue here, so have bought a few more.

The change to SETS is doing well for the company volume and share price 7.80p +0.90p this morning after the large retracement

Big Russian Fertiliser Company (PHOSAGRO) going to have London dealings in July, worth about $6 billion.
Should encourage interest in SXX.

Sirius Minerals Plc - 29 June 2011

Liberum Appointed Joint Broker and Transition to SETS

The Directors of Sirius Minerals Plc (AIM: SXX, OTCQX: SRUXY), the globally diversified potash development group, are pleased to announce that the Company has appointed Liberum Capital Limited ("Liberum") to act as its joint broker with immediate effect. The Company has also arranged to start trading of the Company's shares on the SETS system on the London Stock Exchange's AIM ("AIM").

Liberum is one of the UK's leading independent investment banks, with a strong emphasis on mining. The group's services include research, sales, trading, equity capital markets ("ECM") and corporate advisory. In the recently released 2011 UK Small Caps Equity Research survey Liberum was named "No.1 brokerage firm in UK Mining Small & Mid Cap" and it recently acted as Co-lead Manager on Glencore International Plc's record $60 billion IPO on the London and Hong Kong stock exchanges. More information on Liberum can be found at: www.liberumcapital.com.

Liberum joins XCAP Securities plc as joint brokers.

Sirius has also decided to move the trading of its shares on AIM from SEAQ to the SETS electronic order book trading system. SETS offers multiple order types and market maker support, and is one of the most liquid electronic order books in Europe. The combination of this liquidity, market supervision, and competing clearers ensures a fair and transparent market for investors.

Chris Fraser, Managing Director and CEO of Sirius, said:

"We are delighted to appoint Liberum as our joint broker. They have an excellent global reputation for providing high-quality unbiased advice to its clients, as well as for delivering innovative solutions across a broad range of corporate transactions. We look forward to working with Liberum as we continue to advance Sirius toward our goal of becoming a leading producer in the global potash industry.

The transition to SETS should increase market transparency, trading efficiency and liquidity for the Company's shares."

a very strong order book of 2.4M on the bid side for only 835K at offer is the main reason of the spike, though buying is strong aswell

One wonders why this switch has been such a long time in coming !

kerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrchinnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggg!! and skr yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeehaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

Second good day here.

According to your chart, exactly the same thing happened at end of March, then it all went..............down again. Am not confident this sector is ready for serious investment from private investors yet.

Harry - I own none -they just happen to be on my "speculative" list :-)

A most interesting comment, especially bearing in mind the seriousness of the world crop shortages .
That said , it looks has there has been considerable manipulation of this stock , so hopefully the move to SETS will help out here.
But, I expect that you have other things in mind.
At any rate I have seen a 40 % hike in my buy of a few days back

Cp, the sp has gone steadily down from 22p to 6p. The demand for food worldwide continues to increase, yet the SKR and SXX prices continue to fall. It's not all about food demand however, but companies which are profitably producing potash and phosphates in stable political environments. There are already a number of these, Canadain companies being one of the top producers atm.
As for manipulation of stock, enough has already been said on that subject on these boards. If you think that's the case, then my advice is to avoid the stock.

9.75p +0.25p
RNS ......
York Potash Concept Study

The Directors of Sirius Minerals Plc (AIM: SXX, OTCQX: SRUXY), the globally diversified potash development group, are pleased to announce the commencement of the Concept Study on the York Potash Project.

The Concept Study represents a key stage in the development of the York Potash Project. During this phase the various options and development alternatives for the project will be analysed and tested. Importantly a through innovation analysis phase will be incorporated to ensure the latest breakthroughs in mine and process development and sustainable design are incorporated into the Project. Sirius expects this to be completed by the end of 2011.

Sirius has finalised the appointment, via its subsidiary York Potash Ltd, of its team of consultants to deliver the Concept Study for York Potash. The Company has adopted a novel approach to this critical early stage study of the project's feasibility by appointing leading specialist consultants for different project aspects:

-- Geology and Drilling: FWS Consultants
-- Concept Study Engineering: Ercosplan
-- Slurry Pipeline Transport: Murphy Group
-- Owner's Team Support: Hatch

Chris Fraser, Managing Director and CEO of Sirius, said: "We believe we have assembled the best possible team of consultants to help us deliver the York Potash Project. Our decisions have been based on securing relevant and practical expertise in analysing the unique aspects of the York Potash Project. In this team we have access to well over 100 years of potash expertise and this strongly positions us to deliver the highest quality Concept Study for the project."

FWS (www.fwsconsultants.co.uk) has been working on the York Potash Project since its inception in early 2010. Lead by Rick Smith, the FWS team remain the lead consultants on all geological aspects of the project.

Ercosplan (www.ercosplan.com) is one of the world's leading potash geological and engineering consulting firms. In particular they have extensive in-house expertise in relation to the Zechstein Basin from their origins in the German potash industry and from working with K+S KALI GmbH. Ercosplan will have overall responsibility for the compilation of the Concept Study and work in partnership with Sirius's other consultants.

Given the important potential represented by the transport of mined ore to processing facilities via pipelines, Sirius decided to secure the services of a dedicated pipeline expert. Murphy Pipelines (www.murphygroup.co.uk) has extensive experience in the construction of major pipeline systems around the world but in particular in the UK. Murphy brings practical expertise and should enable Sirius to form more definitive views on the viability and economics of the pipeline systems sooner.

In addition, Sirius has secured the services of Hatch (www.hatch.ca) to work with the Owner's Team to drive project innovation and analysis. Hatch provides a very powerful resource with extensive potash expertise. Their ability to critically review and provide input into the Concept Study will be of significant value to the Company.

We seem to have a recovery underway, supported by some half decent news. high time too !

There was a seller @ 9.50p, a large order was put on the order book, and eventualy was done as AT.

since then the buyers are back and the bid is back to 9.50p, instead of offer