POLK COUNTY, Fla. (WFLA) – A 3,200-foot section of road is under construction on private property near Mulberry and could change the future of the phosphate mining industry.
The Mosaic Company is using approximately 1,200 tons of its radioactive mining byproduct, called phosphogypsum, to build the road.
It’s a process that was once banned by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) but was approved as a pilot program in Dec. 2024 at Mosaic’s New Wales facility…