This is the road leading up to our mine. Glaciers unearthed the fulvic shale deposit and pushed it to the top of this hill. On our property you can find this deposit only 4 feet from the surface.

It was first discovered by slaves working the fields where we now extract Tracite. The slaves that worked the fields would often cut themselves or injure themselves in other ways. The story has it that these folks used to put the fulvic shale right on the injury. The fulvic compounds present acted as an anti-biotic and as a blood coagulant. Some years later around the turn of the century this fulvic deposit was rediscovered by a Veterinarian who treated the animals in the area. The farm located on one side of the road had the usual health problems in the livestock that most others in the county were also experiencing. It came to this Doctors attention that the farm located on the land where Tracite is now extracted was the only place in the county where he never paid a visit for the same health issues plaguing the rest of the counties livestock. On further investigation he discovered that the animals on this land were fed the same feed as the counties other livestock. Even more puzzled he began to look for other reasons why these animals were so incredibly healthy.

After some time and a lot of observation he noticed one day while walking the fields of the Farm that the horses, cows and other animals were licking some kind of reddish-brown mineral deposit that protruded from the ground.

As he looked more closely he made a miraculous discovery. When he began to unearth some of this substance he was absolutely sure that he had never seen any rock or mineral deposit that locked like this. Later he discovered that only about 40 or so acres were covered with this mineral. The glaciers had pushed this deposit to the top of a hill where it remains today. Our land is the only land that contains these minerals ... a very rare deposit. He began to experiment and discovered he could leach these precious fulvic compounds connected to trace minerals and elements out of the fulvic deposit by using only water. He began to sell this to other farmers and began taking it himself. His health never suffered and the story has it that he died near 100 years of age.

This is a close-up of the incredible deposit more than 40 million years old. In this shot you can see that it is not very far from the surface. Notice the abundance of color and the shale-like consistency.

Tracite contains rich quantities fulvic acid discovered to be one of the most important miracles of life itself. Fulvic acid is a part of the humic structure in rich composting soil. It is an acid created in extremely small amounts by the action of millions of beneficial microbes, working on decaying plant matter in a soil environment with adequate oxygen. It is of low molecular weight and is biologically very active. Because of its low molecular weight, it has the necessity and ability to readily bond minerals and elements into its molecular structure causing them to dissolve and become mobilized fulvic complexes. Fulvic acid usually carries 70 or more minerals and trace elements as part of its molecular complexes. These are then in ideal natural form to be absorbed by plant roots and interact with living cells. Plants readily absorb high amounts of fulvic acid, and maintain it in their structure. In fact it has been discovered that these fulvic acid complexes are absolutely essential for plants to be healthy, and the same is true of animals and man.

There is no other molecule developed by nature that is more important to life on earth and the life inside of us than the fulvic compounds contained in Tracite. Scientist's are discovering that Fulvic Minerals are "The Missing Link" of nutrition.

This is a closer look at the shale that produces "The Missing Link" known as Tracite. The shale contains 5 natural anti-biotics and more than 70 trace minerals and elements. It is far richer in naturally occurring fulvic acid than other mineral deposits. Hog farmers in the area report a 75% reduction in flies when they supplement their feed with Tracite.