Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The Peace River Phosphate Co. began mining in the Winter of 1889, and most of the ore was shipped to Punta Gorda via the Florida Southern, where it was loaded onto ships for export to Europe. Early mining was with pick and shovel where the above-water sand bars were mined by hand. The material was carried on barges to the nearby drying works.
Phosphate mining in South Carolina declined rapidly in the 1890s, when mining of the higher-grade deposits in central Florida began. The central Florida district has provided the majority of US phosphate ever since. US production of phosphate rock peaked in 1980 at 54.4 million metric tons.
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.
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 de la Florida. In addition to the Pembroke Mine, the Coronet Company operated mining facilities at a number of other sites it acquired in Hillsborough and Polk counties.
For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us
List of collieries in Yorkshire (1984–2015) List of coal mines in the United States; List of copper mines. List of copper mines in Canada; List of copper mines in the United States; List of diamond mines; List of gold mines. List of gold mines in Australia. List of active gold mines in Western Australia; List of gold mines in Canada; List of ...
At the beginning of 2024, Benzinga noted four mining stocks to follow while evaluating tailwinds like green tech demand and persistent inflation. Although gold, as a benchmark, has had one of the ...
This list of mines in the United States is subsidiary to the list of mines article and lists working, defunct and future mines in the country and is organised by the primary mineral output. For practical purposes stone, marble and other quarries may be included in this list.