Overview

Mine Type	Open Pit
Status	Active
Commodities	Phosphate rock
Mining Method	Dredging
Production Start	...
Mine Life	...
Snapshot	Florida phosphates are included three phosphate production stage mining facilities (South Fort Meade, Four Corners and Wingate) and three exploration properties (DeSoto, Pioneer and South Pasture) in Florida consisting of over 210,000 acres of property in Central Florida.
Related Asset	Florida phosphates Operation

Deposit type

• Sedimentary

Summary:

The entirety of Mosaic’s mineral reserves and resources exist within sedimentary deposits. Economic phosphorite exists in a matrix of gravels, sands, silts and clays that are readily extractible. These economic deposits overlay a carbonate platform where phosphorite is absent. The bedrock and economic matrix are overlain by sands, clays and silts that are easily removed. Limitations of extraction arc the case of excavation, the capacity of the matrix to slurry, the grade of the phosphorite, gangue minerals, the depth of the matrix, and the overburden to be removed. Deposition of phosphorite occurred in the Miocene and Pliocene epochs. The depositional environment was shallow marine with sea levels of 300 ft. (100 m) or less. Cold phosphate rich waters were upwelled and mixed with warm surface waters creating vigorous biologic activity. Biological remains settled on the sea floor in regional anoxic zones. Phosphate subsequently substituted into calcium carbonate in the form of the mineral francolite. Accessory- mineralization does occur, but it is of little economic consequence. The deposit underwent transport and rework through marine winnowing. Post-depositional rework is extensive and site factors such as hydrology and groundwater geochemistry influence grade and gangue mineralization. Gangue minerals are generally limestone, dolomitic limestone, iron concretions of varying sizes and competent clays that resist disaggregation by washing. Limestone, dolomite and iron concretions exist as distinct particles that are inseparable through conventional sizing. There is limited intracrystalline substitution of metals within francolite. Most of the gangue minerals arc distinct particles. Mosaic's Florida phosphate mining currently consists of three producing facilities and three exploration properties. The geology across all the sites is a consistent sequence of sub- aerial and marine sediments. The upper most sediments are lacking in phosphates. The marine sediments and carbonate system that follow contains an economic concentration phosphate. The lower carbonate system is devoid of phosphate. At a site level, the geology is unique enough to warrant different ore management practices based on gangue clast size, composition and concentration. The Wingate property geology consists of 35 to 49 ft. (10.7 to 14.9 m) of white to tan-gray poorly graded quartz sand to brown gray to orange iron-ccmentcd clayey sand hardpan to tan-gray to gray clayey sands with varying abundance of reworked phosphate grains. The economic zone is 19 to 37 ft. (5.8 to 11.3 m) thick, ranging in grade from 28 to 31% P2O5and comprised of tan-gray to gray clayey sands with phosphate pellets and grains to gray to gray-blue quartz sands, clays, and phosphate grains and some nodules. The basal units arc gray to gray-blue barren clays to phosphatic limestone rubble to beds of phosphatic limestone.

Mining Methods

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Comminution

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Processing

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Production

Commodity	Units	2021	2020	2019	2018	2017	2016	2015
Phosphate rock	kt	....	....	1,500	1,600	1,400	1,300	1,200

Operational metrics

Metrics	2021	2020	2019	2018	2017	2016
Ore tonnes mined	....	....	6,287,600 bcy	6,032,300 bcy
Annual production capacity	....	....	1.5 Mt of phosphate rock concentrate	1.5 Mt of phosphate rock concentrate	1.5 Mt of phosphate rock concentrate	1.5 Mt of phosphate rock concentrate

Personnel

Job Title	Name	Profile	Ref. Date
.......................	.......................		May 1, 2024
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Total Workforce	Year
......	2022
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