Incredible Minerals Today

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

From Mining Global, January issue, by Ian Hanner

Mining & Exploration Manager Skylar Burdette at Clark, NV diatomaceous earth mine.

  It's a BallGame Changer!

Okay, it's winter. It's cold. And who wants to think about baseball? Well who doesn't?  Warm days, green grass, red dirt, the crack of the bat. Sounds great. And I know there are thousands of groundskeepers out there right now that are planning for next spring and can't wait til opening day. And what do they want? A revolutionary new infield conditioner called BallGame Changer that's been getting rave reviews. Check out what people are saying about it:

“Thank you for introducing us to Game Changer infield conditioner and tell you that I think it is most appropriately named. We found that during the hottest part of our season that we spent less time watering our infield on a daily basis, and our water retention was vastly improved. I will also tell you that we played the last three game of the playoffs her under cloudy, cool and rainy conditions and we never missed a beat. The field was phenomenal and according to feedback from umpires and opposing coaches our playing surface was the best in the league at seasons end! Thanks again for all your help and please keep the game changer coming!!"
-Monty Sowell,  Midland Texas RockHounds (Double A affiliate for the Oakland A’s)