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Phosphate fertilizer processing plant -- Nichols, Florida. The Bone Valley is a region of central Florida, encompassing portions of present-day Hardee, Hillsborough, Manatee, and Polk counties, in which phosphate is mined for use in the production of agricultural fertilizer.
The phosphate mining industry employed 2,200 people. The value of phosphate rock mined was US$2.2 billion. As of 2015, there are 10 active phosphate mines in four states: Florida, North Carolina, Idaho, and Utah. The eastern phosphate deposits are mined from open pits. The western deposits are mined from both surface and underground mines.
The Mosaic Company was formed in October 2004 by a merger between IMC Global, a fertilizer company formed in 1909, and Cargill's crop nutrition division. It is a combined producer and marketer of concentrated phosphate and potash with a customer base which includes wholesalers, retail dealers and individual growers worldwide.
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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 .
The Bone Valley region of Florida encompassing parts of Polk, Manatee and Hillsborough counties is one of the largest known phosphate deposits in the world and makes up 60% of all phosphate production of the United States. Florida is home to 27 phosphate mines with 9 of these being active and the rest being reclaimed. [58]
Plaque marking the discovery of phosphate in Dunnellon. Dunnellon was founded in 1887, [1] two years before the 1889 discovery of phosphate in the area. It was officially incorporated as a city in 1891. [2] The subsequent mining boom, the first of its kind in Florida, lasted until the early 1910s.
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