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> Even though all minerals contain impurities, NPK fertilizer is processed to reduce them to acceptable levels for agriculture

Source? What process exactly?



So many types of mining have loads of fluoride or heavy metals to discard. Since we’re dealing with minerals, in some cases visual inspection & sorting is sufficient. In other cases where high purity is required, may need to dissolve/melt them and process a series of precipitates & evaporates (i.e. expensive).

Here’s a fertilizer example: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21681395/

You can find similar articles just about everywhere there’s an NPK plant.

I know gypsum, aluminum, uranium are faced with similar obstacles. Google if you want details. (I do control systems if that helps.)




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