Rock Phosphate
· Rock phosphate. Phosphate rock of 70 to 75 BPL or as high as is reasonably obtainable is finely ground in a ball mill and then mixed with cooled recycled phosphoric acidgypsum slurry in a digestion tank Figs. It is principally mined from apatite and phosphate rocks phosphorite in which the concentration of phosphate has been enhanced by sedimentary igneous weathering and biological .