A Million Years In The Making
The story of U.S. Soil, starts out in 1947 when Emil Lionelle found an "interesting" looking rock on one of his exploratory walks in the mountains. This rock pushed itself from the side of a granite covering and waited for him to pick it up, just so he could place it in one of his tomato pots. Two weeks later, that one tomato was twice the size of the other ones. However, the story of the Planters II mineral basin goes back much farther. In fact, this unique rock that is the basis for Planters II Fertilizer dates back over 250 million years. A process so old, it can't be duplicated by any human means today.
A very long time ago... during the formation of the ancestral Rockies about 250 million years ago, the Earth was much different. The atmosphere, the sediments, and the oceans were changing.
In these primordial times, vast amounts of sediments accumulated in evaporative basins. Great rain forests formed around the boundaries of these basins. Over a period of time the climate would change from tropical to arid, the rain forests died out forming more sediment and the oceans advanced, flooding the basins. This cycle repeated itself 14 times!
This period of geologic time was the start of Planters Minerals. Life was abundant on the Earth. The waters were rich in dissolved minerals, the soil rich in microorganisms, and the plants rich in nutrients. No man made chemicals existed then - only the wealth of nature.
As the Ancestral Rockies eroded away, their sediments buried the terrain, accumulating depths up to 30,000 ft. The pressure and temperature caused the rocks to become molten, pushing their way to the surface. The Rocky Mountains were born. Faults, shifts and erosion exposed the current Rockies.
The Planters deposit was spared from melting or eroding away. Deep within the Earth's crust, magma covered the Planters basin, protecting it, as the mountains rose. The granite cover protected the Planters basin from erosion and other environmental factors but other forces were at work. As ground water percolated down to a great fault next to the Planters basin it turned to super heated steam, cooking all around it. With the protective cover over the Planters basin and the rising steam, the basin became a gigantic "crock pot" cooking the Planters for over 20,000 years and altering the deposit to something new and much different than the original...something unique. The Planters Mineral Basin was formed!
The chance of the Planters basin being what it is and what it can do, is very remote. A rock that dissolves in water, lasting 250 million years -- incredible!
Planters Minerals are indeed unique minerals and a great deal more!