Nichols Phosphate Mine | Abandoned Florida
Mobil decided it was getting out of the phosphate rock mining business and began selling its operations. Mobil''s South Fort Meade Mine was sold to Cargill Fertilizer Inc. in 1995 which included 27,000 acres of phosphate rock reserves in Polk and Hardee counties, a new beneficiation plant designed to process up to 4m tonne/year, two clay settling ponds, rail loading facilities, draglines, and ...