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Warning of world phosphate shortage
The Australian ^
| 12 Mar 2008
| Matthew Warren
Posted on 03/11/2008 2:02:47 PM PDT by BGHater
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posted on
03/11/2008 2:02:48 PM PDT
by
BGHater
To: BGHater
mining for phosphate causes selenium poisoning to livestock.
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posted on
03/11/2008 2:06:05 PM PDT
by
griswold3
(Al queda is guilty of hirabah (war against society) Penalty is death.)
To: griswold3
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posted on
03/11/2008 2:10:47 PM PDT
by
spokeshave
(Hey GOP...NO money till border closed and criminal illegals deported)
To: BGHater; Ezekiel
Who you gonna call? Jordan Phosphate Mines Company
PROFILE
JPMC was established as a private company on March 1949 to exploit phosphate deposits in Jordan. It was registered as a public shareholding company in 1953 with an initial share capital of JD 250,000 and now operates under Law No. 22 of 1997. JPMC currently operates three mines in Jordan producing phosphate rock, with a fourth mine at Al-Ruseifa having ceased production in 1985, and a downstream fertilizer and chemicals plant at Aqaba in the south of Jordan producing phosphoric acid, diammonium phosphate ("DAP"), sulphuric acid and Aluminum fluoride.
http://www.jordanphosphate.com/
How convenient!
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posted on
03/11/2008 2:11:46 PM PDT
by
Jeremiah Jr
(What would John Lennon do?)
To: BGHater
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posted on
03/11/2008 2:14:17 PM PDT
by
RoadKingSE
(How do you know that the light at the end of the tunnel isn't a muzzle flash?)
To: Jeremiah Jr
I see that Jordan Phosphate is a private corporation.
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posted on
03/11/2008 2:17:45 PM PDT
by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: BGHater
Holy bat poop! Were guano run out of phosphate.
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posted on
03/11/2008 2:20:55 PM PDT
by
Jeff Chandler
(It takes a father to raise a child.)
To: RoadKingSE
And two words: glauconitic sands. I wrote a thesis on this very premise way back in 87.
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posted on
03/11/2008 2:21:43 PM PDT
by
doodad
To: BGHater
The exponential growth in global food productionExponential? Really?
I told you a million times -- don't exaggerate!
To: BGHater
Growth in demand for food in China and India, coupled with increased switching of food crops to biofuels in the US, have increased the demand for fertilisers, raising the world price fourfold in the past year.Algore will be the death of us yet.
To: Constitutionalist Conservative
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posted on
03/11/2008 2:23:56 PM PDT
by
shineon
To: BGHater
Here in Florida we face the same problems with mining of phosphate that we do drilling for oil.
There is enough phosphate in Bartow that they could supply as much as is needed BUT the tree huggers won’t let it happen.
You have to mine it as a pit and they won’t let that happen just like they won’t let us drill for oil in the gulf or atlantic. So what are ya going to do?
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posted on
03/11/2008 2:25:16 PM PDT
by
Joe Boucher
(An enemy of Islam)
To: BGHater
To: BGHater
HPO42-(aq)+ H2O(l) ⇌ H3O+(aq) + PO43-(aq)
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posted on
03/11/2008 2:28:19 PM PDT
by
FoxInSocks
(B. Hussein Obama: The Paucity of Hope)
To: BGHater
"Quite simply, without phosphorus we cannot produce food," says Dana Cordell of the Institute of Sustainable Futures, based in Sydney.We're all gonna die!!
Again.
Has Chicken Little been informed of this development?
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posted on
03/11/2008 2:29:25 PM PDT
by
Ole Okie
To: BGHater
Maybe they will stop using phosphoric acid in soft drinks, and go back to citric acid. Tastes better, IMO.
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posted on
03/11/2008 2:33:57 PM PDT
by
webheart
To: spokeshave
Just don’t get caught with it. ;)
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posted on
03/11/2008 2:34:50 PM PDT
by
Racer1
To: RoadKingSE
Two words. B.S. There is a limitless supply in DC.
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posted on
03/11/2008 2:38:51 PM PDT
by
csmusaret
(John McCain is a self rightous little prick.)
To: BGHater
researchers are warning that the world could face dwindling supplies of phosphate by 2040 unless steps are taken to use it more efficiently and recover it from human waste It makes sense to utilize human waste if it can be done cost-effectively. It would solve 2 problems at once. But if I read this pdf report correctly there doesn't appear to be any real shortage of phosphate-bearing rock. Increased prices will spur more exploration and make new recovery methods more affordable.
Phosphate Rock
To: doodad
Glauconitic sands are a good source of Potassium, but not of Phosphorus. Memory getting a little fuzzy?
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posted on
03/11/2008 3:09:44 PM PDT
by
Renfield
(Turning apples into venison since 1999!)
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