Swift Creek Chemical Complex, Florida

One of two major phosphate mines and processing plants in northern Florida, both of which are owned by Nutrien. Though it is more prolific in its production of nitrogen and potash fertilizer products, Nutrien is the second largest phosphate fertilizer production company in the USA, after Mosaic (which dominates production in the massive phosphate mining district east of Tampa). Nutiren operates two mining areas, these two plants in northern Florida, and another in North Carolina (as well as one in Canada, where the company is based). Nutrien’s two Florida operations cover a 10 by 10 square mile region around White Springs, most of which has literally been turned over by years of strip mining phosphates. The region has two principal production complexes within it. The westernmost of the two complexes is the White Springs Swift Creek Complex. Like the other, this facility was operated by the Potash Corporation until 2018, when Nutrien was formed by the merger of the PotashCorp and Agrium.