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OSLO, April 2 (Reuters) – Norway’s Yara said on

Monday it had agreed to invest about 40 million Canadian dollars

($40.0 million) in a 19.9 percent stake in Canada’s IC Potash

Group (ICP) in a private placement transaction.

Yara, the world’s biggest nitrogen-based fertiliser maker,

said it would aquire 30.13 million common shares in ICP at a

price of $1.32 per share.

The firm said it had also entered into an off-take

arrangement for 30 percent of all products produced by ICP’s

Ochoa project in New Mexico for a period of 15 years, and

discussed the possibility of establishing a jointly held entity

for the purpose of marketing the project’s products.