# Potash and Salt

Their prices have moved together.

Source page: https://www.materialinsights.org/links/potash-and-salt/

[Potash](https://www.materialinsights.org/commodities/potash/) (commodity) and [Salt](https://www.materialinsights.org/commodities/salt/) (commodity): 1 relationship.

## How they are linked

### 1. Price link: co-product

*Cost and price · Weak · Both ways*

Potash ore is mostly mixed with common salt, which is separated and either sold or stockpiled as waste. The salt series is a US index for evaporated salt and moves on its own, with monthly changes correlating at only 0.07 with potash.

- **0.07** monthly change correlation
- **0.13** 12-month change correlation
- **0.18** fitted elasticity

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