Because phosphorus is a finite resource—mined from phosphate rock found only in the United States, Morocco and China—its supply is dwindling. Farmers and researchers worry phosphorus will ...

Synthetic phosphate fertilizer poses a serious threat to our environment. Phosphate rock mining, along with the inorganic fertilizers and animal feed supplements and pesticides for which phosphate is ...

Phosphate rocks are dissolved to create phosphoric acid, which is used in fertilizer and other similar products. The excess left behind is phosphogypsum. Phosphate rocks contain "small amounts of ...

Municipalities in Lääne-Viru County are calling on the state to do more research on the phosphate rock in their county before ...

but I suspect concerns about peak phosphate are overblown. It reminds me of the oil reserve debates of the 90’s. Morocco is the largest rock phosphate exporter by far. Typically for developing ...

Promote local production and consumption of fertilizers using indigenous phosphate rock, and be free from imported ones Development of domestically produced fertilizers using low-grade phosphate rock ...