Northwestern University researchers are actively overturning the conventional view of iron oxides as mere phosphorus "sinks." ...

Remarkably, phosphate rock accounts for around 50 percent of the world’s soil productivity. “It has never been quantified like that,” Demay says.

Growing demand for phosphate rock as an animal feed additive is a significant factor driving the Phosphate Rock market demand.New York, Nov. 30, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The global phosphate rock ...

The phosphate rock market research report is one of a series of new reports that provides phosphate rock market statistics, including phosphate rock industry global market size, regional shares ...

Simply extracting more phosphate rock might not solve all of our problems, Cordell says. Already, one in six farmers worldwide can’t afford fertilizer, and phosphate prices have started to rise.

A graduate student surveys one of the apatite- or phosphate-bearing rocks in Rogaland, Norway, forming the Bjerkreim-Sokndal layered intrusion. The rock contains several important minerals. (Axel ...

Phosphate rock is used in the production of phosphorus, an essential component in the fertilizer industry – 90% of the world's mined phosphate rock goes toward agriculture.

You Need Phosphorus to Live—and We’re Running Out Industrial farming has played a part in sucking this critical element out of our soil.

World rock phosphate production is set to peak by 2030. Since the material provides fertilizer for agriculture, the consequences are likely to be severe, and worsened by the increased production ...

And flood control contributes to disrupting the natural phosphorus cycle. Typically river floods would redistribute phosphorus-rich sediment to lower lands where it is again available for ecosystems.

Phosphate rock, a fertilizer with only 8 to 12 percent phosphorus, is not only inexpensive, it is naturally suited for use in acidic soils. "It's the same mineral that our teeth and bones are made ...

Remarkably, phosphate rock accounts for around 50 percent of the world’s soil productivity. “It has never been quantified like that,” Demay says.