ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - The polluted leftovers of Florida’s phosphate fertilizer mining industry, more than 1 billion tons in "stacks" that resemble enormous ponds, are at risk for leaks or other ...

Kat Cammack and Scott Franklin were among Florida leaders pushing to get phosphate on the Critical Mineral List.

The periodic table you may remember from chemistry class had two additional rows of elements below the main table. In the top added row are rare earth elements, metals critical in everyday ...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. -- The polluted leftovers of Florida's phosphate fertilizer mining industry, more than 1 billion tons in "stacks" that resemble enormous ponds, are at risk for leaks or other ...

The incident happened at Mosaic's New Wales phosphate mine, along the Polk-Hillsborough county line. State regulators say their data showed a change in water pressure at one of the mine's gypsum ...

The polluted leftovers of Florida’s phosphate fertilizer mining industry, more than 1 billion tons in “stacks” that resemble enormous ponds, are at risk for leaks or other contamination when Hurricane ...

Pollution From Florida Phosphate Fertilizer Mining a Concern With Hurricane Ian A leak in March 2021 resulted in the release of an estimated 215 million gallons of polluted water into Tampa Bay and ...

Pictures: Florida Braces for Hurricane Ian After Storm Blacks Out Cuba Fertilizers are made from phosphate rock that contains naturally occurring uranium and thorium, which decay to radium, and radium ...

Florida has 24 such phosphogypsum stacks, most of them concentrated in mining areas in the central part of the state. About 30 million tons of this slightly radioactive waste is generated every year, ...