Kat Cammack and Scott Franklin were among Florida leaders pushing to get phosphate on the Critical Mineral List.

Hardee County’s Planning and Zoning Board pushed forward Thursday proposed changes to a map that shows where phosphate may be mined.

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 everyday ...

The Tampa-based mining company Mosaic is looking to widen its phosphate waste pile in Hillsborough County in a sweeping ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Most of its Florida land is in Glades County, where it owns 269,011 acres, according to the county Property Appraiser’s office, with another 69,733 acres in Highland County. This article originally ...

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 ...