Why the world needs Morocco’s desert rock

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Phosphorous is one of the three nutrients, along with nitrogen and potassium, used in commercial fertilizers. Without the mineral, many farmers would struggle to get good crops.

However, phosphates cannot be produced artificially, and only a finite quantity can be mined. Chakib Jenane from the World Bank said: “Fertilizers are responsible for about 50% of our global production of food.”

CNBC visited a mine in Ben Guerir, Morocco owned by OCP – the largest producer of phosphates in the world. Iliass El Fali, a managing director in charge of the corporate strategy, sustainability and innovation at OCP, said that the African continent holds the key to global food security.

“Africa uses a tenth of the fertilizer used globally. The average the yields in Africa are a quarter of the global average. And 60% of the world’s arable lands are in Africa,” he noted.

Phosphates are also one of the main ingredients in certain lithium-powered batteries, referred to as LFP or lithium iron phosphate batteries – making these minerals crucial for decarbonization.

Watch the video to learn more about phosphates and their significance to the food on our tables, and the energy transition.

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We are blessed in morocco 🇲🇦, to help the whole world and care about the farmers all around the world

mustaphaouannouz

Morocco is the oldest friend and Ally of the US. It was the first country to recognize America.

TheWitness

6:15 For anyone curious about recycling human sewage, there is actually a rather simple and cost efficient method of doing it. The channel "Undecided with Matt Ferrell" has a video about it called "Turning Human Waste into Renewable Energy?".

The TLDW is that you can pressure cook "organic material" to mimic how fossil fuels naturally form to make, well, fossil fuels (primarily bio-char is covered). The company pushing to retrofit waste treatment plants estimates that the resulting "products" could effectively make the treatment plants into power plants with an endless supply of "fuel" producing more power than it takes to process it. It also breaks down PFAS and most other contaminants.

blcstriker

BYD the largest producer of EVs and LFP batteries globally is building Ev factory in Morroco because of its phosphorous reserves.

najibyarzerachic

Sedementary deposits such as Morocco have high levels of heavy metals like cadmium and lead which leave trace residue build up in soils as well as radioactives like thorium and Uranium. They are extremely costly to refine to a state apt for food additives, and moreso for LFP batteries. Arriane Phosphate in Canada has the world's largest, purest, and safest undeveloped igneous phosphate deposit with none of the negative elements and is fully permitted.
Also, Rainbow Rare Earth of the London exchange has signed an MOU with Morocco to process their endless gypsum stacks of tailings for the extraction of Rare Earth Elements neodymium and Praseodymium for the permanent magnets that go into electric motors.

michaelhudson

morocco strategically not exhausting its natural resources especially phosphates and waiting for the rest of the world to run out of its reserves especially china, russia then the price will be even greater than oil, its food we re talking about here .

Xx-Anwar-xX

They have the largest reserve for sure, but China is currently producing three times more phosphate than Morocco each year.

DOCTUSCUMSCIENTIA

Morocco has 51 billion tons of phosphates but another country has more (this video is not up to date). Norway has found reserves earlier this year that amounts to 71 billion tons.

asha

And yet one of the world's best phosphate fertilizers is found in... Russia.
A lesser known or lesser distributed fact, is that the phosphate fertilizer in Russia contains FAR lower amounts of cadmium traces than the one in Morocco... Cadmium naturally occuring in nature, is bad for our health.

dontlaughtoomuch

Africa produces 25% of the world's agricultural output using 10% of its fertiliser. That says something about the potential to save *excessive* fertiliser use in other countries.

Sjalabais

Only 10 - 12% of Phosphorus in Rock phosphate become available for plant. On the other hand 100% phosphorus become available for plant when it origin from organic sources.

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