Golden Avatar has developed environmental technologies for the processing and application of Zeolites, which are unique minerals applicable to a range of agricultural and environmental uses. Zeolites are naturally occurring minerals with an unusual crystalline structure that makes it ideal for use as an organic fertilizer. Zeolite is superior to existing fertilizers because it does not ‘exhaust’ the land like commercial fertilizers and is capable of producing double agricultural yields without need for land replenishment. It also acts as a water moderator, capable of absorbing up to 55% of its weight in water and slowly releasing it under plant demand. Slow release of water by Zeolite is capable of preventing ‘root rot’ and moderate dry cycles. Zeolite is a viable answer to harmful farming practices, lack of water management, deforestation, and harmful effects to agriculture caused by climate change.

Viable Uses for Zeolite

Aquaculture: Zeolite performs an excellent ammonia bio-filtration function in fish hatcheries.

Agriculture and Horticulture: Zeolite can provides a slow-release source of potassium and nitrogen that is superior to industrial fertilizers in that it does not exhaust the land, and is thus capable of facilitating double-yield agricultural production.

Zeolite also acts as a water moderator, capable of absorbing up to 55% of its weight in water and releasing it under plant demand, preventing root rot and moderate drought cycles.

For livestock, Zeolite is used as a food additive for several types of animals and in bedding, resulting in a fertilizer rich in ammonia.

Household Uses: Zeolite provides excellent odor control and odor absorption.

Medical Uses: Zeolites, particularly the naturally-occurring species heulandite, clinoptilolite and chabazite, are currently used for delayed release drug deliver, as antitumor adjuvants, antidiarrheal agents, hemodialysis, improvement of bone formation, and in the treatment of diabetes mellitus.

Industrial Products: Zeolite is used as an environmentally friendly absorbent for oil spills and gas separations.

Radioactive Waste Remediation: Zeolite may be used in site remediation and decontamination.

Water Treatment: Zeolite performs excellently in water filtration, attracting and removing heavy metals.

Waste-water Treatment: Zeolite can be used as an effective ammonia bio filter in municipal sludge/wastewater and septic leach fields.

Global Consumption: Current global production of zeolites amounts to approximately four million tonnes annually.

Cell Structure and Chemistry of Zeolite: Zeolites have a complex crystalline structure that works like a magnet in trapping toxins at a cellular level. Zeolite is negatively-charged and so attracts and bonds with positively-charged heavy metals, toxins and other harmful chemicals.

It is rare for a mineral to be negatively charged, and Zeolite is increasingly recognised as one of the most powerful natural chelators in the world for its ability to attract and bind harmful, positively-charged toxins and chemicals.

Zeolites contain a very large number of small channels in its structure (microporosity), which, with typical diameters of .5 to .7 nm, are slightly larger than the diameter of water molecules. Larger channels (the mesoporosity) also exist in quantity. The channels contain positive ions that may be exchanged for other ions, allowing zeolites to selectively absorb harmful or unwanted elements from soil, water and air