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Re: Analyze Missouri Granite and Other Tailings?
Be careful about general claims for 'volcanic ash' or any other
ingredient. I own 10 acres in Yakima, WA and can speak first hand about
volcanic ash from St. Helens. It was a lot of fun being there but there
was no general improvement in soil fertility in the Yakima Valley. There
were an unusual amount of mites in the summer/fall fallowing the ash fall
and a lot of mushrooms the following spring.
---Jay
On Wed, 9 Sep 1998, lloyd kinder wrote:
> >I hope i'm not re-stating the obvious, but maybe have a representative
> >sample of the tailings analyzed at your local soils lab?
>
> Thanks, Pat, for the suggestion. I heard last year from a friend that
> volcanic ash has properties that greatly improve soil fertility and that
> Oregon and Washington have had bumper crops since the eruption of Mt.
> St. Helens, which erupted in 1980, spreading ash over those 2 states in
> some areas and beyond. He and Acres material said that paramagnetic
> qualities of granite rock may also improve fertility. I'm not clear
> whether the ash is paramagnetic. There is granite in the area of
> Ironton, Missouri, and we obtained a sample, which our friend found is
> not significantly paramagnetic. One quarry there has broken granite rock
> from a monument operation, but not much powder. We decided not to pursue
> that, i.e. finding someone to crush it into powder, since it's not
> paramagnetic. But granite is igneous rock, so maybe it'd contain useful
> minerals. Still, it'd have to be crushed first. Would anyone near
> Ironton like to get the granite analyzed? Or has someone done so
> already. We got granite dust last year from Georgia via a middleman in
> Springfield, Ill. That dust is apparently highly paramagnetic, but we
> don't have a mineral analysis yet. We were shown fields, however, that
> didn't previously produce well, till after granite dust was applied.
>
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