There is nothing special about basalt dust. The presence of green and healthy natural flora all over the world shows that all soils have all the minerals that plants need. But, being insoluble in wate

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Thanks for sharing the link to the recent article in Nature Ron and also your positive comments Bob. Natural Resource management is a complex topic, as a ProSilva style restorative & regenerative fore

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Kim, Thanks for bringing that article to our attention. I've been adding basalt dust to all of our mixed biochar products for years. I started after studying paramagnetism and its effects on plant gro

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Kim, Thanks for bringing that article to our attention. I've been adding basalt dust to all of our mixed biochar products for years. I started after studying paramagnetism and its effects on plant gro

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Valentine et al: I just sent this following note off on this “Beerling” article to a different (AMEG) list (leaving off the intro): The Guardian article had brief mention of a commentary by Johannes L

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Sounds like great work, with much promise, Valentine; Sorry things in Cameroon have gotten so rough now. Brian -

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Basalt does not occur in Missouri, but we are customers of Rock Dust Local to provide the basalt for our Green Frontier super compost which has 15% biochar. We are getting extraordinarily postitive co

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Find attached the Nature Paper In the Cameroons, I obtained the rock dust by grinding fines from a quarry and basaltic lava from a recent eruption of Mount Fako. The final product increased the yield

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All, This newly published research paper in Nature appears to open a new avenue for promoting the use of biochar. We know that soluble minerals in the form of 'rock dust’ work synergistically with bio

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