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Previously, significant amounts of rock were shipped to China, where it was processed into phosphate fertilizer. The majority of phosphate mining in Florida is done in the Peace River watershed. Phosphate mining companies use draglines to remove surface soils up to 60 feet (18 m) deep over thousands of contiguous acres.
Piney Point phosphate plant is an industrial site in Manatee County, Florida and the location of a former fertilizer plant. The land is currently owned by HRK Holdings, which leases portions of the land to industrial tenants under the name Eastport .
While it consists largely of abandoned phosphate pits, it has a large area of undisturbed scrub habitat. Natural habitats within the site include sand pine scrub, xeric oak scrub, pine flatwoods, hardwood hammock, wet prairie, freshwater marsh, cypress swamp, and hardwood swamp. During the 1960s (and prior) the land was pitted with phosphate mines.
Brewster is a ghost town in southwest Polk County, Florida, United States, ten miles south of Mulberry. It is at an elevation of 143 feet above sea level and has been uninhabited since the early 1960s. The population is 3, according to the 2010 Census. The village of Brewster was founded in 1910 and for decades flourished from phosphate mining.
Pond in Saddle Creek Park, Polk County, Florida. Saddle Creek Park is a 740 acre park located between Winter Haven and Lakeland in Polk County, Florida [1] It is on the site of three main lakes and a great many other abandoned phosphate pits, providing a large area of fishable shoreline. [2] Over 175 species of birds have been recorded at the ...
The phosphate deposits in the nearby area were generally mined out by the 1920s, and mining operations shifted to the Hopewell area about 15 miles south of Plant City. In 1913 the Coronet Company purchased the Pembroke Mine facility, located between Fort Meade and Bartow in Polk County , from the French company Compagnie Generale des Phosphates ...
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Liverpool was a phosphate mining town in Florida and was named for its founder, John Cross, from Liverpool, England.Liverpool was most likely chosen because it was on the Peace River, which provided a way that mined phosphate could be transported to Charlotte Harbor.