Incredible Minerals Today

  Chili Relleno Casserole

  Diatomaceous earth cliffs at EP Minerals Lovelock, NV mine.

How do you make the best beer? Is the ingredients? The hops, the malt, the barley? The recipe? The brewer? The fermenting process? Is it in how you store it?

Recently California Governor Jerry Brown ordered the California state water board to implement reductions in cities and towns to cut usage by 25%. California's order also requires campuses, golf courses, cemeteries and other large landscapes to significantly cut water use and ban watering of grass on public street medians.

  Andrew Welford, EP Minerals Director of Commercial Sustainability

An interview with EP Minerals Director of Commercial Sustainability, Andrew Welford

It’s the countdown to opening day next week.  Go Giants! And Dodgers, and Nats, Pirates and our hometown Reno Aces. I think I’ve covered all the favorite teams here in our office. We’re a diehard bunch when it comes to baseball, and softball, too, as we have a world series of softball player on our marketing team. We love everything about baseball – talking about the players, the drama, the start of great weather, the food, and our favorite part  - our infield baseball products! We absolutely love to see our BallGame Changer and PlayBall! products in action on those MLB, minor league, college and high school baseball and softball infields. These new baseball infield products comprise the complete line of our Groundskeeper’s Choice 100% natural, high-performance super calcined clay solutions.

By Stan V. Griep, Certified Consulting Rosarian, American Rose Society

It’s an incredibly frustrating situation. We're seeing very strong demand for our industrial minerals - diatomaceous earth (DE) and perlite. Our Nevada plants have been working hard to fill customers orders as soon as possible. We’ve invested significant capital in our plants this year to increase our efficiency. Operations is working full throttle. But the product is just sitting in West Coast ports. On trucks and in rail cars waiting to ship to customers. And, our stockpiles grow daily.

It’s been almost eight months since the West Coast port labor dispute started between the International Longshore and Warehouse Union and the Pacific Maritime Association. Little to no activity has occurred and last week the situation got even worse with the unions refusing to unload containers at night. Containers are stacked 6 high for miles and miles in all the West Coast ports.

  Nothern Nevada teachers collecting stickleback fish fossils