Re: Phosphate mining

On 20 Nov 2003 08:13:19 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

>"that 20 tons of a specialty chemical known as tributyl
>phosphate, or TBP, was shipped from China to the North Koreans.  It
>further stated that the chemical has both commercial and military
>applications and U.S. intelligence officials believe the TBP will be
>used to extract material for nuclear boms from the North Korea's
>stockpile of spent nuclear reactor fuel....

TBP is indeed used for extraction of metals, though that's a very
low-volume use of phosphates. Those metals include uranium.

I have to ask: Why didn't you include this detail in your first post?
Why have you still not provided a link to the article you reference?
For anyone interested, it's at

 http://www.ceip.org/files/nonprolif/templates/article.asp?NewsID=3871

You now quote the article as saying that the TBP came from China,
whereas your first post clearly implied that it came from the US and
that it was monetary justification for the destruction of the
environment in the Gulf of Mexico, and even "descruction (sic) of our
beautiful coast, land, water supply and contaminate the air?" 

You ask us "(Please, don't twist what I question to bring in a
tangent)" but you come across as a typical environmentalist wacko.

Give references, do some research on your own, don't present only the
facts and interpretations which suit you, avoid interpretations and
loaded words, and you can learn a lot on the technically oriented
newsgroups.

-- 
Al Balmer
Balmer Consulting
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