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 ...

Florida's reclaimed phosphate pits are the fodder of bass fishing legends, with ol' mossback growing big in the nutrient rich and forage aplenty environs of these private waters. Unfortunately ...

In 1961, the fish were imported to Central Florida from Auburn University for testing to see whether they consumed aquatic plants. The fish were kept in phosphate pits at a commission facility ...

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 ...

Sugar companies, citrus growers and phosphate miners could start commandeering the water on their land and selling it. Right now, Florida law ... projects. The pits left by the mining would ...

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.