Here's a large pale green apatite grain in a massive, slightly smoky quartz vein from the Moine metamorphic rocks near Bunessan in Mull. This crystal is a pretty eroded and fractured, but definite potential in this stuff... 
#Mineralogy #Geology #Mull #Phosphate
We have apatite! Spot test for phosphate: ammonium molybdate, plus vitamin C reduction to molydenum blue... #SpotTest #AuldSchoolChemistry #Phosphate
Discovery of common 'weapon' used by #disease-causing #fungi could help engineer more resilient #food #crops.
#NUDIX_hydrolase #rice #food_security #agriculture #Magnaporthe #phosphate #sensing #signalling
https://phys.org/news/2025-02-discovery-common-weapon-disease-fungi.html
"To help meet the cost of moving about 10,000 residents from low-lying homes menaced by rising sea levels and floods, the remote Pacific Ocean nation of #Nauru aims to sell citizenships for the #climate-threatened island.
President Adeang is seeking to raise an initial $65 million for work to transform the barren interior — left as an uninhabitable moonscape by decades of #phosphate mining — with a project to ultimately develop a new township, farms and workplaces."
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/tiny-island-nation-selling-passports-210009650.html
L'empreinte toxique du phosphate
Une enquête de Laurence Grun et Pierre Vanneste pour Nuit Noire production, diffusée par Tchak et Apache
On le trouve dans le Coca, les lessives, les détergents, les médicaments, les cosmétiques, l'industrie textile, pétrochimique et alimentaire, mais surtout dans les engrais (90% de la production). Cet ingrédient, c'est le phosphate transformé en acide phosphorique.
Enquête sur une industrie minière et chimique qui, depuis deux siècles, déplace ses activités selon les législations, laissant derrière elle une contamination souvent irréversible.
Voir le site : https://tchak-phosphatecontamination.eu/fr
Photo 1 : Bouteille de « jus fluo » (H₂SiF₆) récupérée sur le site de déversement de la plage de Khondio. Photo 2 : Feuille de tabac affectée par les gaz de l’usine chimique de Gabès.
New LMFP EV battery formula: cheap as LFP with better performance.
https://cleantechnica.com/2025/02/08/new-lmfp-ev-battery-passes-critical-test/
New LMFP EV battery formula: cheap as LFP with better performance.
https://cleantechnica.com/2025/02/08/new-lmfp-ev-battery-passes-critical-test/
UK scientist wins prize for invention that could help avert ‘phosphogeddon’.
Phosphate, key to food production, is choking waterways, but a new sponge-like material returns it to the soil for crops.
UK scientist wins prize for invention that could help avert ‘phosphogeddon’
Phosphate, key to food production, is choking waterways, but a new sponge-like material returns it to the soil for crops
Pour atténuer l'absorption du cadmium :
Privilégier les produits Bio (les engrais phosphatés sont interdit en bio)
les produits riches en fibres, en fer qui limitent l’absorption du cadmium
Qu’il soit blanc, aux graines, complet ou bio, le pain est la star de nos repas. Mais tous, sans exception, contiennent des traces de cadmium : un métal lourd utilisé dans l’industrie.
« Pain, fruits, légumes : révélations sur un nouveau scandale alimentaire »
#zoneinterdite en streaming sur M6+
Engineers develop #algae-based #adsorbents as new weapon against harmful blooms
#HAB #phosphate #pollution #rhabdophane #cyanobacteria
https://phys.org/news/2025-01-algae-based-adsorbents-weapon-blooms.html
I was not going to post about #MinCup24 Round 1 Match 4 (Durangite vs Wavellite)... but then I read about Wavellite and realized that it's probably one of those cryptic #phosphate sinks that make my life difficult - so naturally, it gets my vote.
https://www.mineralcup.org/2024/vote/r1m04
Lithium iron phosphate batteries, just add wastewatter
#lithium #lithiumbattery #batteries #battery #energystorage #lfpbattery #phosphate #phosphates #iron #wastewater #wastemanagement #recycling #upcycling #evs #evbattery #evbatteries #supplychain #automotive #automobiles #vehicles #electricvehicles
https://cleantechnica.com/2024/08/05/wastewater-could-be-what-the-lfp-battery-supply-chain-needs/
Lithium iron phosphate batteries, just add wastewatter
#lithium #lithiumbattery #batteries #battery #energystorage #lfpbattery #phosphate #phosphates #iron #wastewater #wastemanagement #recycling #upcycling #evs #evbattery #evbatteries #supplychain #automotive #automobiles #vehicles #electricvehicles
https://cleantechnica.com/2024/08/05/wastewater-could-be-what-the-lfp-battery-supply-chain-needs/
#Phosphate in #NASA's #OSIRISREx #asteroid sample suggests space rock #Bennu hails from an #ocean world
The largest sample returned from an asteroid could contain insights into our #solarsystem's past and the origin of life on Earth.
Early analysis of the near-Earth asteroid Bennu has revealed unexpected evidence of magnesium-sodium phosphate, suggesting Bennu might have originated from a primitive ocean world.
https://www.space.com/nasa-osiris-rex-sample-return-phosphate-ocean-world #space
It boggles the mind that #Nauru isn't learning from past mistakes. Also, 10,000 people, who will barely profit from #DeepSeaMining, are buying the hype while #DeepGreen and #GerardBarron disrupts #DeepSeaLife, possibly permanently! Not good...
"#Australia, #NewZealand and #Britain had nearly exhausted the viable deposits of #phosphate by 1968 when Australia granted Nauru sovereignty, leaving behind one of the world’s worst #environmental #disasters."
#Corruption, incompetence and a musical: Nauru’s cursed history
The once-wealthy island now barely survives on income from Australia’s #detention regime and is pinning its economic hopes on #UnderseaMining
Anne Davies and Ben Doherty
Mon 3 Sep 2018
"During the 1990s it transformed into a money-laundering haven selling banking licences and passports, including diplomatic passports, which confer immunity. Customers included the Russian mafia and al-Qaida."
https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/04/corruption-incompetence-and-a-musical-naurus-riches-to-rags-tale
#Portfolio | En Tunisie, le paradoxe du phosphate
Le #phosphate est essentiel pour la fabrication d’engrais. Sa présence est concentrée dans quelques pays, dont la #Tunisie. Avec des prix d’exportation record en 2023, le président Kaïs Saïed a promis de relancer la production des phosphates tunisiens. Mais son extraction, au cœur des luttes sociales du bassin minier de Gafsa depuis l’époque de Ben Ali, n’est pas sans conséquences.
› https://www.mediapart.fr/studio/portfolios/en-tunisie-le-paradoxe-du-phosphate
It's not just that phosphate used in food production pollutes natural water courses, ultimately ending up in the oceans. It's mining harms biodiversity.
#phosphate #pollution #farming #FoodSystem
https://www.biologicaldiversity.org/campaigns/phosphate_mining
#environment #globalwarming
