Utilizing Natural Resources for a Better World

Natural Zeolite – Zeolites are microporous, aluminosilicate minerals which are commonly used in industry for water purification, in medicine, agriculture, laundry detergent, cat litter, as catalysts, for the preparation of advanced materials and in nuclear reprocessing. Natural zeolites form where volcanic rocks and ash layers react with alkaline groundwater. Zeolites also crystallize in shallow marine basins in post-depositional environments over periods ranging from thousands to millions of years in shallow marine basins. Zeolites have a porous structure that can accommodate a wide variety of cations, such as Na+, K+, Ca2+, Mg2+ and others. These positive ions are rather loosely held and can readily be exchanged for others in a contact solution.

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Clinoptilolite Zeolite (aluminum silicate) is a natural volcanic mineral, a micro porous inorganic mineral with an open, stable, three dimensional honeycomb structure that is negatively charged. The structure loosely holds cations (negatively charged ions) which are available for exchange. The ability to exchange one cation for another is called “cation exchange capacity”, this allows the mineral to serve as nature’s molecular sieve, allowing larger molecules to be separated from smaller molecules. BnR Zeolites Clinoptilolite Zeolite (Potassium-Calcium-Sodium-Alumina Silicate is one of the purest in the world with a high Caton Exchange Capacity (CEC – 2.65-2.8 meq/g).

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