Florida - a disaster for the mining industry
The Kostya Valley region, also known as the World River watershed, is located in the southwestern part of central Florida, about 30 miles east of the Tampa Bay area. The watershed of the River Mira includes the ports of the current counties of Hardy, Hillsboro, Manate and Polk, where phosphate is extracted for use in the production of agricultural fertilizers. Florida currently contains the largest known phosphate deposits in the United States.
Take a look from space
Get to know what you see on Google Maps. see hyperlink:
"Https://www.Google.com/maps?ll=27.840787,-81.99678&z=10&t=m&hl=en-US&gl=US&mapclient=embed" You will see a large land area, about thirty miles east of the Tampa Bay area, on the Florida Peninsula. This area is known as the water sharing of the Peace River. Here you will see numerous, very large man-made square or rectangular pit holes filled with clean fresh water from crushed aquifer systems.
These square holes, filled with fresh aquifer water, are different from the beautiful natural blue lakes and water bodies in Florida. These giant square pits are artificial craters made from phosphate draglines drilling one hundred feet of phosphates into Florida’s natural water supply. Water is provided in the form of groundwater or “aquifer systems”. Google maps clearly shows that phosphate draglights are scratched and scarred on the Land of Southwest Central Florida a full square mile from a single phosphate mine alone.
Phosphate industries the term “overburden” is better known to man as lakes, ponds, trees, pastures, grasslands, rivers, natural sources, aquifer systems, watersheds, etc. Draglines are so large and numerous that they mine thousands of acres of “overburden "In just a month. These huge draglines descend from a hundred feet, penetrate them, and then grind and completely remove Florida’s natural aquifer systems. Unallocated volumes of water that are no longer contained in the aquifer system can fill the newly created phosphate wells in the southwestern central part of Florida.
At the time of this writing, thousands of critical wetland companies, aquifer systems and watersheds are still being purchased in the phosphate industry for web mining. All this happens with the permission of the state and districts of Florida, as they issue permits intended for phosphate mines. Unfortunately, these permits provide the phosphate strip mining industry with access to Florida’s rich geography, including Florida’s unique aquifer systems. Florida's aquifer systems have taken millennia (1000 years) to perfection, and many are now completely extinct. Phosphorus phosphorus is more valuable than Florida watersheds and aquifers? Florida's politics and the phosphate strip industry say it's every day. The Florida Department of Environmental Services (2) says: "... in 2000, 1.13 billion dollars of phosphate fertilizers were exported from Florida, making it one of Florida's leading export products."
Phosphate Dragline in action
The United States Geological Society (USGS) estimates that draglines can be hundreds of feet high and can weigh hundreds of tons. The huge dragline bucket holds up to 65 cubic meters of overburden that completely fills 10 standard dump trucks. Dragline removes up to 100 feet of earth, known as overburden for the phosphate industry. Unfortunately, the first 60 feet of the earth store the real treasures of Florida.
The hole is simply discarded, which leads to the emergence of "phosphate dumps". These dump piles are located on the side of what is called the “pits of the phosphate mine.” Pitholes from the phosphate mine look akin to the lunar landscape, the opposite of the natural beauty of Florida. Phosphate mining operates 365 days a year throughout southwest central Florida. This relentless removal of stripping from the phosphorus industry in Florida causes irreparable damage to the Florida aquifer systems.
Watersheds and aquifers
The World River watershed covers 2300 square miles in the southwestern part of Central Florida. It contains most of the phosphate industry in Florida, including Bones Valley. As mentioned earlier, the phosphate strip companies use draglines to remove surface soils (known as overburden) one hundred feet down, removing thousands of adjacent acres of Florida aquifers.
Florida law requires that the surface (60 feet deep) be restored. Wetlands are returning to an acre for acres, such as type. According to the phosphorus industry, more than 180,000 acres (728 km2) are being reclaimed in the watershed of the River Mira. The phosphate industry is vigorously promoting its reclamation projects, as they return wetlands and watersheds. Unfortunately, we are given only half the truth.
All the truth
Aquifer systems cannot be simply replaced at the reclamation stage. This fact is not subjective, because man cannot replace what has gone on nature for thousands of years to create. The aquifers have disappeared, along with one of Florida’s most amazing natural resources, abundant clean freshwater. The phosphate industry claims to have restored more than 180,000 acres. This is only a half-truth, because it does not include an equal amount of Florida's aquifer areas that are gone forever. Ironically, phosphate is a reduction in exports.
Assignment Tasks Draglines
WIKIPEDIA states: “Large, walking draglines operating 24 hours a day in surface mines dig up raw pebble phosphate mixed with clay and sand (known as a matrix) in the Valley of the Bones ...”.
Florida systems of aquifers associated with failures?
(1) The USGS believes that the pre-funnel areas are located beneath the southwestern central land of Florida. Funnels can be caused by large amounts of water, including phosphate bands. These dip forms are based on rock types, aquifer formations, destruction of aquifers and the absence of groundwater. It is based on the geological hydraulic pressure created by aquifer systems. Thus, the lack of water pressure on the surface due to the destruction of the reservoir of the aquifer leads to the fact that the overburden rocks become unstable and in some cases collapse. Unfortunately, loss of life and property can occur during surface collapse. Again, evidence points to the phosphate industry as dips caused by the destruction of the aquifer.
Aquifers are natural hydraulic lifts. The aquifers cannot be compressed filled with water, therefore the surface above the aquifer systems is stable, which means no dips. However, when aquifers are crushed and removed, the water in these aquifers is now free from containment. This large volume of water fills extraordinarily deep deep holes with clean fresh water. The most interesting thing is that nature is now working against us in the form of dips, developing and geologically close, crushed systems of aquifers.
Florida's southwestern central regions and aquifers are dying out due to the destruction of the formation of the aquifer system through phosphate strip mining operations. Florida, known in the Florida phosphate industry as phosphate overburden, is destroyed for valuable phosphates.
Florida's aquifer systems are completely removed along with overburden, using huge phosphate draglights. It removes valuable phosphate, which leaves (visible from Google Maps) huge blue holes. These beautiful big blue holes are tens of thousands of acres of mines where the local natural aquifers are completely destroyed.
Not surprisingly, the Tampa Bay area in Florida is a funnel disaster. This area is directly adjacent to the largest phosphate strip mines in the continental United States, where the entire southwestern central area of Florida is supported by the largest aquifer system in the state. The system is known as the Flordana water system. see hyperlink:
1 United States Geological Survey (USGS).
2 Florida Department of Environmental Protection.
