Zeolite History
 History of Zeolite Use
- B.C. — Used in Roman Aqua Ducts to purify the water
- 1950’s — Zeolite discovered in USA
- 1960’s — Mentioned in scientific circles.
- 1970’s — Used for wastewater ammonia removal and Chernobyl radioactivity removal
- 1980’s — Used to clarify pool water in Europe and then in USA
- 1990’s — Used in agriculture and raising cattle and poultry
- 2000’s — Began to be used to detoxify human body
What is Zeolite?
The short answer is micro-porous minerals of volcanic origin. Zeolite is an inorganic porous material having a highly regular structure of pores, chambers or capillaries that are negatively charged that allows some molecules to pass through, and causes others to be trapped inside its chambers.
The Origin of Zeolite
Zeolite begins as volcanic ash that is spewed into the atmosphere during violent eruptions. Ash plumes can travel thousands of miles before they are deposited on the earth’s surface.
In nature, zeolites are often formed where volcanic rock of specific chemical composition is immersed in water so as to leach away some of the components. Composition and pore size, of course, depend upon what kind of rock minerals are involved.
Zeolites are volcanic hard rock minerals. They are derived from volcanic ash that is solidified and mineralized over thousands to millions of years.
Uses of Zeolite
Zeolites have many useful purposes. They can perform ion exchange, filtering, odor removal, chemical sieve and gas absorption tasks. The most well known use for zeolites is in water filtration applications.
The synthetic industry has mimicked some of the natural zeolites, and formed many new ones targeted towards very specific purposes.
Of the many natural zeolites, clinoptilolite is the type suited for the broadest use of applications because of its hardness and capability to be ground finely to achieve a small particle size.
Recently, people have discovered that zeolite can be ingested and will clean, deodorize and detoxify the human body, with no harmful side effects. Zeolite provides useful minerals to the body and pulls harmful ones out of the body.
ETS Zeolite - Our Mine
Our extremely high quality ZEOLITE is located in the United States.
Development of the mine and construction of the plant began in 2001. Although the deposit has never been drilled, dozer cuts and outcrops indicate mineralization of more than 200,000,000 tons.
Mining includes stripping a soil layer, drilling and blasting, then trucking the rock to the processing plant, which is less than one mile from the mine. The plant consists of crushing, drying, blending, screening, packaging equipment, warehousing, and silo storage.
Some $5,000,000 has been spent for the plant, sales development, and mine. A recent expansion during the first quarter of 2005 increased the plant capacity to more than 150,000 tons per year (tpy). The zeolite from this mine is considered to be one of the best quality zeolites in the world due to its high cation exchange capacity, purity, low clay content, low sodium content, homogeneity, and hardness.
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