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But unlike nitrogen, another critical soil nutrient, phosphorus is a non-renewable resource with limited geological deposits, meaning that once it moves from land to water, it can't get back into the land.

The earliest votes counted in the 45th Congressional District showed Steel leading by more than 5 percentage points, but that lead vanished as elections officials counted ballots deposited in drop boxes and sent by mail.

On the Spanish island of Lanzarote, just west of North Africa, the team explored six lava tubes to gather mineral deposits.

The campaigns led to the discovery, for example, of uranium reserves in the lower Yangtze River Basin and a major molybdenum-tungsten deposit in the Nanling Mountains in southern China.

Every year it clawed this money back by depositing lower royalty payments - the money it received for every barrel pumped out of the ground - with the Nigerian treasury.