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To: pocotrader who wrote (58003)	3/31/2008 3:02:21 AM
From: E. Charters	Read Replies (1) of 78418

Agrium, Potash Corp. Many others. Nitrates are made from the Haber-Bosch process. Literally from thin air. Same as explosives. Used to be mined in Chile and Argentina. Big trade until first world war. Natural gas is main source of nitrogen now, but sources could be seawater or air. Most fertilizers sold are NPK - Nitrate, Phoshate, Potassium compounds. They are sold by numbers such as 25-25-25 which means equal parts 25% N, P and K. Another big source of nitrates is animal chid. Manure, mon. During revolutionary war, merikans used to make gunpowder from "night soil" out the back 40. That is called giving the enemy chid. The fertilizer industry is closely allied with the mining industry. Cominco and Sherritt Gordon went into fertilizer in a big way. Texas gulf tried as they had the sulfuric acid in Ontario and the phosphate rock in the states, but Ontario Northland Railway stopped that. The gas companies in Texas producing all kinds of ammonia and sulfuric acid went into fertlizer too, selling their product to companies with phosphate deposits, such as apatite and fish scale rock. there used to be all kinds of apatite mining in southern ontario and we produced our own ferlizer by the megaton. All gone now. A lot of fert comes from the fishy phosphate rock of Carolina and Florida. EC<:-}

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