The incident happened at Mosaic's New Wales phosphate mine, along the Polk-Hillsborough county line. State regulators say their data showed a change in water pressure at one of the mine's gypsum ...

This footage highlights Florida’s vital role in the global recovery following World War II. In the years after the conflict, Florida’s phosphate mines became a key supplier of raw materials needed to ...

POLK COUNTY, Fla. – The periodic table you may remember from chemistry class had two additional rows of elements below the main table. In the top added row are rare earth elements, metals critical in ...

An early phosphate mine in the Bone Valley region of Central Florida. (Photo via Florida State Archives) When I was a kid growing up in Pensacola, I’d come home from school and immediately turn on ...

TAMPA, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A Polk County resident has reached a confidential settlement with Drummond Co. Inc. based on claims that the Alabama-based mining operator failed to warn him about ...

Just months after Plymouth-based The Mosaic Company won an appeal, the company was issued another preliminary injunction last week that prevents it from extending its South Fort Meade phosphate mine ...

As Hurricane Milton makes its way across Florida, the state faces not only powerful winds and heavy rainfall but also the threat of hazardous waste from its phosphate fertilizer industry. With winds ...

Rep. Lawrence McClure, a Dover Republican, has filed a bill that establishes a defense for landowners against liability for having radioactive byproducts on site.

Replacing carbon-emitting gas-powered cars with EVs requires whittling away EVs’ price premium, and that comes down to one thing: battery cost. (TNS) — The periodic table you may remember from ...

Synthetic phosphate fertilizer poses a serious threat to our environment. Phosphate rock mining, along with the inorganic fertilizers and animal feed supplements and pesticides for which phosphate is ...