You're probably thinking "not much!" These three areas are places that palagonite, a rare rock dust formed through the interaction of water and volcanic glass, is found. Normally it occurs where there is recent volcanic activity, but in the past 11 years has been found at Mt Sylvia! Interested in how it happens? www.mtsylviasoilconditioners.com.au/products/understanding-palagonite-video
I'm mentioning this because I know a lot of you are into gardening to some extent...and most of us have soil that needs help. It's either too sandy, too clay ridden or too depleted of organic matter.
And that's where palagonite can help. Palagonite has the natural ability to hold and retain water, which is great news for a lot of gardeners, but when mixed with manure and microbes it becomes a powerful growth agent for gardens. The mine at mt Sylvia has already exported their blend to Dubai, where it was able to support the growth of healthy grass in a polo center! This was desert...and then they added the palagonite/manure blend and grass grew!
Of interest to my husband and I with our organic market garden, is the paramagnetism of palagonite. We already use blue metal in our compost brew to increase the soil paramagnetism and recently found out palagonite has triple the paramagnetism of crusher dust/blue metal. It also improves the soil pH, microbial activity and adds many trace elements to the soil.
If you live in the Toowoomba area and want to try palagonite out, check out www.birdsongmarketgarden.com.au where we will soon be offering this supplement for sale to home gardeners.
The link below gives you some more info about this mineral:
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