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Simplot CEO visits Pocatello
POCATELLO — As its global footprint expands, J.R. Simplot will again become one of the most cost-effective phosphate producers in the nation, the company’s top official said Wednesday. “I’m really excited to announce that we will be among one of the cheapest producers in the United States once we have the new ammonia plant up […]
United States, Idaho Phosphate Industry -
Phosphoric acid production by attacking phosphate rock with recycled hexafluosilicic acid
Highlights Optimization of phosphoric acid manufacturing at 70 °C by adding of Syrian phosphate to hexafluosilicic acid (20 %) The hexafluosilicic acid attack is carried out with optimal calcium content (between 2.5 and 3.5 %.) in the phosphoric acid produced The solid cake contains chukrovite (Ca4AlSiSO4F13.12H2O), gypsum and silica quartz We suggest a clean production […]
International Phosphate Industry -
Simplot plant, DEQ agreement will cut pollution
POCATELLO — Air and water quality near the J.R. Simplot Don Plant will continue to improve at an accelerated pace thanks to a new agreement between the company and the Idaho Department of Environmental Quality. A new agreement between Simplot and the DEQ signed this summer will reduce fluoride and particulate emissions by more than […]
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Life and death inside a Chinese ‘cancer village’
Three years ago, I sat beside the bed of Zhang Runxiang as the 42-year-old lay dying of uterine cancer. She and dozens of others in Liuchong village, a tiny hamlet in central China’s Hubei province, have petitioned China’s government and complained on state-run television that they’ve had been poisoned by Dasheng chemical, a company that manufactures phosphate […]
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Phosphate giant Mosaic agrees to pay nearly $2 billion over mishandling of hazardous waste
Note from FAN: Mosaic supplies fluoridation chemicals to communities across the U.S. from their operations in Florida. This photo, taken Thursday, shows Mosaic Fertilizer’s phosphate mine operation off U.S. 41 near Riverview. LUIS SANTANA | Times Mosaic Fertilizer, the world’s largest phosphate mining company, has agreed to pay nearly $2 billion to settle a federal […]
United States, Florida Phosphate Industry -
Fluorosilicic Acid Market – Industry Overview and Key Factors
Albany, NY — Fluorosilicic acid is an organic liquid produced as by product of hydrogen fluoride and phosphoric acid production. It is generally used for fluoridation of water to maintain fluoride level in water by municipal corporations and in toothpastes. Maintaining fluoride levels helps in preventing tooth decay. Being a liquid, fluorosilicic acid is easy […]
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EPA outlines cleanup goals for former fertilizer plant site in Spartanburg
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will outline its plan Thursday for removing residual contaminants including nitrate, sulfate and fluoride from groundwater at a former fertilizer plant on the south side. A public meeting will be held from 6:30 to 8 p.m. at the C.C. Woodson Community Center during which the public will be able to […]
United States, South Carolina Phosphate Industry -
Fluorogypsum: Old base materials causing cracks in resurfaced roads
GONZALES — Only months after being widened and resurfaced earlier this year, a new 350-foot section of Roddy Road in Ascension Parish began cracking and heaving. Looking like what happens to corn bread freshly baked in the oven, the cracks marred what was otherwise a welcome $1.85 million investment to a one-mile stretch of a […]
United States, Louisiana Phosphate Industry -
‘Superphosphate’ poisoning is actually fluorosis
Animals have been known to die from grazing pastures recently top-dressed with superphosphate. The cause of death is in fact fluoride (not phosphate) toxicity as commonly thought. Fluoride is found in all naturally occurring phosphate deposits, so ends up in all P fertilisers, including superphosphate (single, triple and dicalcic), DAP, MAP and RPR, but not […]
New Zealand Phosphate Industry -
The Wound That Won’t Heal: Idaho’s Far-Reaching Phosphate Pollution
While the pollution at the FMC site rivals the story in the movie Erin Brockovich, the story of phosphate in Idaho actually has a much wider reach, spanning the entire Phosphoria Formation that lies underground across western Idaho, southwestern Montana, western Wyoming and northern Utah. Deposited by an ancient shallow sea, the deposits have yielded […]
United States, Idaho Phosphate Industry