{"id":168,"date":"2019-10-20T21:49:34","date_gmt":"2019-10-20T21:49:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fezluxurytours.com\/blog\/?p=168"},"modified":"2019-11-01T18:12:07","modified_gmt":"2019-11-01T18:12:07","slug":"moroccan-phosphate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fezluxurytours.com\/blog\/moroccan-phosphate\/","title":{"rendered":"Moroccan Phosphate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"730\" height=\"410\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fezluxurytours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Phos.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-170\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fezluxurytours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Phos.jpg 730w, https:\/\/www.fezluxurytours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Phos-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Phosphorus is an essential element for the\ngrowth of plants (and animals). Industrial agriculture introduced phosphorus\ninto its mineral fertilizers (the various combinations of N-P-K) and with it\nsuccessfully addressed, at least at the level of yields, the latest\nagricultural revolutions, including the &#8220;green revolution.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Morocco has three quarters of known phosphate\nreserves on the planet, it is the first exporter and the third largest producer\nof raw phosphates worldwide. The State, represented by the Cherifian Office of\nPhosphates (OCP) monopolizes the exploitation of this mineral. The sector\noccupies a privileged place in the Moroccan economy, it corresponds to 21% of\nexport earnings, representing 3.5% of GDP. Phosphates are, after remittances\nfrom migrants and tourism, the third most important source of income in the\ncountry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fezluxurytours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Phosphate-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-171\" width=\"305\" height=\"177\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The four main production centers\n(Khouribga, Youssoufia, Ben Guerir and Bucraa) produced 26.4 million tons in\n2010 and, with investments from abroad, it is expected to reach 50 million tons\nper year in the coming years. In 2010, the group achieved a profit of 763.8\nmillion euros on a turnover of 4,100 million, and its share in the\ninternational gross phosphate market went from 29.8% to 35.6%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On the mines of Bucraa it is necessary to\nmake a clarification.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This site is located in the former Spanish colony of Western Sahara. Since 1947 it was known, thanks to works by Spanish geologists, that there were phosphates in this desert territory occupied by Spain. But it was in the year 1962 when a group of engineers of the ADARO company under INI deepened the geological studies and found the presence of the mineral about 100 kilometers from the coast and El Aai\u00fan. Following the importance of the discovery, the National Sahara Mining Company (EMMINSA) was created, which was later transformed in 1968 into Bucraa Phosphates (Fos Bucraa). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The studies determined the goodness of the discovery: a deposit of 84 kilometers in length, 2.5 to 3 km wide and an average thickness of 5 meters thick, covering about 1.5 billion tons of ore from a wealth of the 31% of P2O5, open-pit exploitable, which greatly facilitated its extraction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fezluxurytours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/phosph.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-172\" width=\"342\" height=\"205\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A 100 km conveyor belt was built from the\nmine to the coast where the ore was shipped. The exploitation began in 1973\nwhen 655,000 tons of ore were shipped until reaching 2.7 million tons in 1975.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Madrid Agreements of 1975, whose validity is not recognized by the UN, which continues to consider that Spain is the administrative power of the Sahara, included the transfer of Fos Bucraa to l&#8217;Office Ch\u00e9rifien de Phosphates (OCP). So one sixth of the production of the Moroccan state company today comes from the Sahara. But in addition to the quantity, what these illegally exploited deposits provide, is their quality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phosphorus is an essential element for the growth of plants (and animals). 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