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    Phosphorite, phosphate rock or rock phosphate is a non-detrital sedimentary rock that contains high amounts of phosphate minerals. The phosphate content...
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  • The Phosphorite War (Estonian: Fosforiidisõda) is the name given to a late-1980s environmental campaign in the then-Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic...
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    360,000 tonnes of salt are produced annually (2004). There are known phosphorite ore deposits near Mstsislaw, and in Labkovičy (Krychaw Raion) in eastern...
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    Breccia complex deposits Vein deposits Intrusive deposits (Alaskites) Phosphorite deposits Collapse breccia pipe deposits Volcanic deposits Surficial deposits...
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    Examples include pyrite nodules in coal, a chert nodule in limestone, or a phosphorite nodule in marine shale. Normally, a nodule has a warty or knobby surface...
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    phosphorite. Two of the largest deposits include the Karatau basin with 650 million tonnes of P2O5 and the Chilisai deposit of the Aqtobe phosphorite...
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    towards independence. One of the first major acts of resistance was the Phosphorite War, an environmental protest against Soviet plans to establish large...
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    of 350,000 square kilometres (140,000 sq mi). The Phosphoria includes phosphorite beds that are an important source of phosphorus. Many of its shales are...
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  • The Quercy Phosphorites Formation (French: Phosphorites du Quercy) is a geologic formation and lagerstätte in Occitanie, southern France. It preserves...
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    Adelpharctos (Mammalia, Carnivora, Ursidae) from the late Oligocene of the "Phosphorites du Quercy" (France)". Estudios Geológicos. 67 (2): 179–186. doi:10.3989/egeol...
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  • with sulfuric acid. Subsequently, other phosphate-rich deposits such as phosphorite were discovered and used. Soluble phosphate is an essential nutrient...
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    Fertilizer prices   DAP   Potassium chloride   Phosphorite   Triple Superphosphate   Urea...
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    "Upper Cretaceous (Campanian) phosphorites in Jordan: implications for the formation of a south Tethyan phosphorite giant". Sedimentary Geology. 161...
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    Greenwood (1997). The Chemistry of the Elements (2nd ed.). pp. 513–514. "Phosphorite - PubChem Public Chemical Database". The PubChem Project. USA: National...
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    diatomaceous earth Other forms Bone bed Kerogen alginite oil shale Phosphate phosphorite Pyrena Related Mineral evolution In soil mineralization immobilization...
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    iron oxide, sulfide, sulfate, sulfur, hydrothermal manganese oxide, and phosphorite (the latter especially in parts of Micronesia) are all mineral resources...
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  • Florida In 2015, 27.6 million metric tons of marketable phosphate rock, or phosphorite, was mined in the United States, making the US the world's third-largest...
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    the Soviet Union altogether. The Soviet government's plan to excavate phosphorite in the Lääne-Viru county with potentially catastrophic consequences for...
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    greyish and contains several marl beds, chert beds and phosphorite beds. There are 3 main phosphorite beds and several minor phosphate-bearing beds. These...
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    diatomaceous earth Other forms Bone bed Kerogen alginite oil shale Phosphate phosphorite Pyrena Related Mineral evolution In soil mineralization immobilization...
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  • (gem-quality olivine) Perlite (volcanic glass) Phengite (variety of muscovite) Phosphorite (name given to impure, massive apatite.) Pimelite Pitchblende (a massive...
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    the new name of "guanine" in 1846. Chicken manure Human uses of bats Phosphorite Uric acid "Nauru: An Island Country Destroyed by Phosphate Mining". www...
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    Adelpharctos (Mammalia, Carnivora, Ursidae) from the late Oligocene of the "Phosphorites du Quercy" (France)". Estudios Geológicos. 67 (2): 179–186. doi:10.3989/egeol...
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  • rock containing kerogen Oolite – Sedimentary rock formed from ooids Phosphorite – Sedimentary rock containing large amounts of phosphate minerals – A...
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    Middle Miocene. The Pungo River Formation is mined extensively for its phosphorite deposits. Earth sciences portal United States portal Paleontology portal...
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    (2013). "Ursidae (Mammalia, Carnivora) from the Late Oligocene of the "Phosphorites du Quercy" (France) and a reappraisal of the genus Cephalogale Geoffroy...
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    uranium from phosphate rocks". OSTI 6654998. "Uranium from Phosphates | Phosphorite Uranium – World Nuclear Association". "Brazil plans uranium-phosphate...
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    and Jordan, countries that have large phosphate-mining industries. Phosphorite mines are primarily found in: North America: United States, especially...
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    filaments (mucoromycotinan Glomeromycota?) are permineralized in marine phosphorite of the Doushantuo Formation in southern China. These fossils are thought...
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    Fertilizer prices   DAP   Potassium chloride   Phosphorite   Triple Superphosphate   Urea...
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