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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 is an American chemical company based in Tampa, Florida, which mines phosphate, potash, and collects urea for fertilizer, through various international distribution networks, [2] and Mosaic Fertilizantes. [3] It is the largest U.S. producer of potash and phosphate fertilizer. [4]
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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 economy of Mulberry is dominated by phosphate mining. The Bone Valley is the world's most productive phosphate rock mining area. According to the Chamber of Commerce, Mulberry is the "Official Phosphate Capitol of the World." [17] The Mosaic Company operates the Nichols mine approximately two miles east of town
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.
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 ...