The History and Future of Phosphorus IFDC
11/10/2019#0183;#32;Today, the phosphorus used in the manufacture of fertilizer is predominately mined from phosphate rock (PR) deposits found all over the world. The process of creating products from this rock is expensive, energy intensive, and, along the chain from mine to product, very inefficient, producing literally tons of waste in the form of phosphogypsum and other byproducts. Additionally, since the