"Colombia will buy tractors, mining equipment and fertilizer from Canada, France and Germany instead of Illinois, Georgia and Texas," Mr. McCrery said.
You could overload your portfolio with shares of oil, mining, timber and fertilizer companies.
Heavy metals have always been the most hazardous components in the wastewater of industries like electroplating, automobiles, mining facilities and fertilizer manufacturers.
A desert especially rich in mineral salts is the Atacama Desert, Chile, where sodium nitrate has been mined for explosives and fertilizer since around 1850.
He still finds time to go down to his office at 61 Broadway three times a week when he's in town, to play a consulting part in the Lewisohn copper-and gold mining, fertilizer, and general investment and banking business, which his son Sam looks after.
Chronic exposure occurs from air pollution in certain areas, among workers in the insecticide, aluminum-mining, and phosphate-fertilizer industries, and in whole groups of people who live in areas with waters naturally high in fluorides.
Since the dawn of the Industrial Age, we have polluted our streams, rivers, lakes and oceans with pesticide and fertilizer runoff, mining and oil wastes, petrochemical products and thousands of other dangerous products.
Seeking to capitalize on the global mining and agriculture booms, Australian fertilizer company Incitec Pivot has agreed to buy industrial explosives maker Dyno Nobel for 2 billion Australia dollars ($1.83 billion) in cash and stock.
