We have apatite! Spot test for phosphate: ammonium molybdate, plus vitamin C reduction to molydenum blue... #SpotTest #AuldSchoolChemistry #Phosphate

Billionaire Motsepe's Phosphate Mine Hits Legal Snag #SouthernAfrica #billionaire #hits #legal #Motsepes #Phosphate #Snag 
https://tinyurl.com/27ujh5lp

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

https://www.democracynow.org/2023/8/1/niger_coup 

#Uranium #Gold #Iron #Phosphate #Oil mining attracts the worst #neocolonial criminals for #Kleptocracy to countries where more than 50% makes less than $2/day: France, Germany, Italy, Belgium — Canada and the US were pouring #security #assistance — that is, funding for #military and #police efforts, training efforts, a lot of weapons sales… to kind of bolster this so-called #democracy.

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