Florida In 2015, 27.6 million metric tons of marketable phosphate rock, or phosphorite, was mined in the United States, making the US the world's third-largest...

copper-uranium-gold mine in South Australia. In 2005, this mine was estimated to contain 33% of the world's known uranium reserves. The Phosphate Hill mine and associated...

Phosphate Hill Historic Area is a heritage-listed historic precinct located one kilometre (one mile) east of Poon Saan in the Australian territory of Christmas...

carbonatite. The deposit also contains lesser phosphate mineralisation associated with apatite. Panda Hill was first developed for niobium in the late 1950s...

Dajarra in the Shire of Cloncurry, Queensland, Australia. It is nicknamed Phosphate Hill. The town was named by the Queensland Place Names Board on 1 October...

open pit mine, nearly 2,000 meters across, is Africa's widest manmade hole. Founded in 1951, Foskor's Mining Division in Phalaborwa mines phosphate rock (foskorite...

urine, and bone ash was an important early phosphate source. Phosphate mines contain fossils because phosphate is present in the fossilized deposits of...

British Phosphate Commissioners, and in June 1970, control passed to the locally owned Nauru Phosphate Corporation (NPC). Income from the mines made Nauruans...

island of Aruba, around two small hills: Seroe Colorado and Seroe Culebra. Additionally, in early 1909, phosphate was also discovered slightly further...

Turquoise is an opaque, blue-to-green mineral that is a hydrous phosphate of copper and aluminium, with the chemical formula CuAl6(PO4)4(OH)8·4H2O. It...