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Global distribution of commercial reserves of rock phosphate in 2016 [81] The accurate determination of peak phosphorus is dependent on knowing the total world's commercial phosphate reserves and resources, especially in the form of phosphate rock (a summarizing term for over 300 ores of different origin, composition, and phosphate content ...
In 2012 the USGS estimated world reserves at 71 billion tons, ... Production and global reserves of natural phosphate by country in 2019 (USGS, 2021) [22] Country
In 2010, IFDC geologist Steven Van Kauwenburgh estimated the world's supply of phosphate rock at 60 billion metric tons [12] in the publication World Phosphate Rock Reserves and Resources. By his estimates, global resources of phosphate rock suitable to produce phosphate rock concentrate, phosphoric acid, phosphate fertilizers and other ...
The exact phosphate content of the phosphate rock mined in 2015 is not available, but in the latest five-year period for which ore grades are available, 2009-2013, the grade of US phosphate rock varied from 28.5 to 29.0 percent P 2 O 5. As of 2016, remaining reserves of phosphate rock in the United States totaled 1.1 billion metric tons. [1]
Morocco is the world's largest producer of phosphate, and contains about 75% of the world's estimated reserves. [1] Mining contributed up to 35% of exports and 5% of GDP in 2011. [ 2 ] Foreign investors have found the investment climate, the infrastructure, fiscal situation, and political stability very favorable to continue business in the ...
As of 2005 the Aurora mine had estimated proven and probable reserves of approximately 356 million tonnes of phosphate rock at an average grade of 30.7% P 2 O 5. PotashCorp has rights to exploit an area of 8,900 hectares (22,000 acres) of phosphate-bearing reserves, sufficient to support the mine's operations for around 75 years. [1]
The OCP Group (OCP S.A.) (formerly Office Chérifien des Phosphates) is a Moroccan state-owned phosphate rock miner, phosphoric acid manufacturer and fertilizer producer. [2] [3] Founded in 1920, the company has grown to become the world's largest producer of phosphate and phosphate-based products and it is one of the largest phosphate, fertilizer, chemicals, and mineral industrial companies ...
Nauru was one of three great phosphate rock islands in the Pacific Ocean, along with Banaba (Ocean Island), in Kiribati, and Makatea, in French Polynesia. The phosphate reserves on Nauru are now almost entirely depleted. Phosphate mining in the central plateau has left a barren terrain of jagged limestone pinnacles up to 15 m (49 ft) high.