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Ore mineral

Apatite

The phosphate mineral of both igneous rock and your own teeth. Sedimentary phosphorite is the ore actually mined.

Axinite, Quartz, Apatite, Albite. Puiva, Polar Ural, Russia-9063 · Raimond Spekking · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

What it is

The phosphate mineral of both igneous rock and your own teeth. Sedimentary phosphorite is the ore actually mined.

Materials that come from it

Material	Role	Grade note
Phosphate Rock	The ore mineral	—

Phosphate Rock

Rock full of the element phosphorus — the P in fertiliser, and now the P in the LFP batteries used in most new…

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