The DeSoto County Commission Tuesday was scheduled to consider an ordinance that would specifically ban gypsum stacks.\n<\/p>\n
This appears to be a largely symbolic gesture since Mosaic, which is planning to mine thousands of acres in that county, has no plans to build a fertilizer plant there. Fertilizer production at these plants generates waste known as phosphogypsum because it contains, in addition gypsum, a variety of radioactive and toxic elements.\n<\/p>\n
A similar arrangement to allow mining but no gypsum stacks occurred when Mosaic announced plans to mine phosphate in western Hardee County several years ago.\n<\/p>\n
Hardee, which has no natural lakes, also developed a county park around some of the former mine pits to expand boating and fishing opportunities there.\n<\/p>\n
The proposed DeSoto County ordinance also seems to envision using mined land for future recreational amenities. DeSoto has no natural lakes.\n<\/p>\n
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