Amazon will explore the possibility of producing conventional fertilizers
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Nov 24, 2010 03:40PM
Cerrado Verde Potash, Apatita Phosphate, Gold, Vanadium, Copper and Zinc
"Amazon will explore the possibility of producing conventional fertilizers such as SSP, STP, MAP and DAP from the phosphate at Apatita."
MAP, Mono Ammonium Phosphate
DAP, Di-Ammonium Phosphate
SSP, Single Super Phosphate
STP? Believe this to be an error in the news release and perhaps should read as TSP..Triple Super Phosphate, can someone confirm this, yes or no?
The "STP" term seems to be used regularly in place of "Soil Test Phosphorus" for agronomic threshold levels of soil testing.
So, in August we were a one product company going forward, we now have that same product...Thermopotash, now in ag trials and in addition we have limestone in the verdete that can help farmers reduce thier costs on limestone required to correct the acidity of his soil by a whopping 490kg for each tonne of ThermoPotash used.
We have a most postive PEA on the Thermopotash used specifically as an add to the "Blended" end product c/w a macronutrient kicker.
Now we have potential for the above SSP, STP, MAP and DAP additions to the AMZ family of ferts which may be made possible by way of upgrading/benefication of the phosphate. My previous post showed the results of hydrometallurgical benefication... high ranged phosphate.
One thing strikes me though, the double asterisks beside the info that the drill core was not sampled from surface..i may be reaching here... could it be that the new phosphate deposit structure lies within the "Transition zone", (5 to 9% K2O), immediately adjacent to the massive gluaconite Fuchal Norte and that at the time of drilling off the Transition zone found that it held K2O by use of XRF hand helds, yes, at the time it was not as important as the search for massive gluaconite program and was set on the backburner for later activation, er...now. "The initial drilling at Apatita was primarily planned to define the width of mineralized phosphate within the Areado group (Sequence of flat lying sediments which unconformably overlie the Verdete Slate unit [The Verdete Slate hosts the Cerrado Verde Potash "