So does Florida phosphate “feed the world,” an industry ... When LeBaron returned to the Peace River in 1886, he dug test pits and analyzed the sample deposits. He realized that the rock ...

Yet the history of phosphate in Florida has largely been a story of doing ... 30 feet of earth and dumps it to the side of the mine pit. Then the dragline scoops out the underlying section of ...

“They’re radioactive waste pits and now people are riding around ... and speculators flooded the area and the great Florida phosphate boom had begun. By 1894 more than 215 phosphate mining ...

Over the past year The Mosaic Co., which operates mines across Florida’s phosphate-rich Bone Valley region, has applied to either test or begin injecting its phosphate wastewater far beneath the ...

As Hurricane Milton makes its way across Florida, the state faces not only powerful winds and heavy rainfall but also the threat of hazardous waste from its phosphate fertilizer industry.

Duke Energy is piloting a floating solar farm in Florida – its first – on ... s surface on the pond – which used to be a phosphate mining pit – at the Duke Energy Hines Energy Complex ...

The incident happened at Mosaic's New Wales phosphate mine ... wastewater for its expanded mining operations in southwest Florida," Whitlock said. "And this facility has shown that it cannot ...

On its website, Mosaic, a major phosphate industry player, said phosphogypsum is deposited on stacks under “strict standards” established by the Florida Department of Environmental Protection and the ...