The ORMUS elements are relatively abundant in volcanic rock and ash (about 5-10% by weight). They are paramagnetic and probably constitute the paramagnetic elements which Philip Callahan talks about.

These m-state elements have a strong affinity for water and can be quickly depleted from soil if that soil is not protected from water erosion. Organic materials in the soil bind them and hold them in place.

Once they are in water, they follow the water through its phase changes and give water many of its familiar properties. Salt, in water, tends to keep the ORMUS elements in the water so that in the ocean they do not evaporate with the water as readily.

We suspect that the m-state in ocean water stratifies in such a way that it is more concentrated in the strata below the surface. This might be related to the so-called thermal stratification that has been noted in ocean water. Where there is an upwelling, the traditional explanation is that this upwelling brings up nutrients from the ocean floor. It might, rather, be the case that the upwelling brings up m-state elements from deeper levels and that these are the nutrients which encourage life to bloom in such upwellings.

Though these elements can be quite abundant in spring water right out of the ground, their levels can drop by 50% within a quarter mile downstream. We believe that this is the result of their traverse of the earth's magnetic field. Since these elements are superconductors  and since superconductors exclude magnetic fields, these elements are repelled by the Earth's magnetic field from the spring water as it moves along in the stream bed. We have used this property of the ORMUS elements to develop magnetic levitation traps to concentrate them from fresh water. Some of these trap designs can be found at:

Magnetic Traps
http://www.OrmusMinerals.com/magtrap.htm

Despite this loss to the atmosphere, some of the ORMUS elements eventually make their way to the ocean. They carry with them a portion of their original ORMUS load and pick up more of the ORMUS elements from erosion on their way to the sea.

One property of the ORMUS elements is that they are only soluble in water under certain conditions. If they are precipitated out of water and this precipitate is allowed to thoroughly dry, the dry precipitate will not redissolve in water. It will not even redissolve in concentrated acid. Plants and animals do seem to be able to redissolve these insoluble elements, perhaps through enzymatic reactions.

In nature, this will occur where water accumulates in an inland sea without an outlet. Such a sea will concentrate the ORMUS elements as it becomes saltier and as it looses water to evaporation. The Great Salt Lake and the Dead Sea are good examples of this stage.

Eventually, these salt seas may dry up as the result of climate or geological changes. In this drying process there often is a time when the sea alternately dries out and is baked by the sun during the summer months and is rehydrated during the moist winter months.

As the evaporating water concentrates these elements, the rising pH of the water will cause them to precipitate out on the lake or sea bottom. During the dry months the sun will completely dry this precipitate so that it will not redissolve during the wet season.

Over time, layer after layer of the ORMUS elements is deposited on the bottom of these intermittent bodies of water. These deposits also include the season's ordinary silt. One can see this stage of the process happening in the intermittent lakes of northern Nevada and southeastern Oregon.

Ultimately, some of these dry lakes or seas are uplifted in geological change. When this happens, precipitation starts to leach out the salt and alkali from these deposits leaving the insoluble ORMUS elements in place. Since these areas do not support plant life due to their salt and alkali content the ORMUS elements just lie there till enough of the salt and alkali have been leached out of these deposits to allow them to support plant life again.

Every dry lake does not end up as a great source for the ORMUS elements. Sometimes the lake bed will be covered by volcanic ash while it is too salty and alkali to be eaten. Sometimes the water source will have contaminated the lake deposit with lead, arsenic or mercury. Sometimes the lake bed will never dry out till it finally is dried by a volcanic flow. When this happens, the ORMUS precipitates may remain moist enough that they are quickly leached out with the salt and alkali.

Despite these problems, the incredible variety of the Earth provides numerous places where all of the conditions were just right for concentrating the ORMUS elements in "fossil clays".

I have heard some marvelous stories about the healing properties of these fossil clays. One source in eastern Europe claims 80% cure rate of certain cancers from the ingestion of fossil clays found there. Another source claims similar results from ancient sediments from the Great Salt Lake area. It looks like Rollin Anderson's montmorillionite clay (Azomite) is one such sediment. A similar clay from nearby which is sold under the name "Pureganic" has been used as a source for the manufacture of an ORMUS product called "Pureganic Liquid Manna". Information on this product can be found at:

Pureganic Liquid Manna
http://www.pureganic.com/

I have had an opportunity to test for the m-state elements in some of these materials. They invariably produce significant amounts of the ORMUS precipitate. These tests are quite simple and I have performed them in my kitchen.

You can find detailed instructions for this assay process at:

http://www.OrmusMinerals.com/whatisit.htm

Click on "How to make it".

The assay process uses the Dry Method described on the web page. A simple summary of the Dry Method is as follows.

Take your powdered sample and mix it with four to six times more water. Add lye till the pH is about 12. Boil for two hours. Filter out the precipitate to separate the remaining liquid. Throw away the precipitate. Bring the pH of the liquid down no lower than 8.5. Additional precipitate will drop out. This precipitate will contain the m-state elements along with some calcium and magnesium hydroxides.

Wash the precipitate with distilled water. At this point the precipitate will be safe to eat if all procedures have been followed carefully.

If you wish to further purify the precipitate, you can thoroughly dry it out by heating it at 300 degrees F. in an oven for two hours. The m-state rhodium, iridium and gold in this sample will not dissolve in concentrated hydrochloric acid so if you soak the dry sample in concentrated hydrochloric acid the portion which does not redissolve will be pure ORMUS rhodium, iridium and gold.

If you separate these solids from the acid and wash the remaining acid out of them with distilled water, they are edible but the body does not assimilate them as easily as it does the precipitate before it has been dried out.

At this point you are probably wondering if there is a way to separate these elements out of sea water where they are already concentrated and in solution. Yes there is and this process is even simpler than the Dry Method used to extract them from powdered clay materials.

This process is called the Wet Method and it is described in the same web page I mentioned above. You may recall that I described how a lake can become so alkali that the m-state elements drop out as a precipitate. The Wet Method duplicates this process.

It is best to start with filtered ocean or salt sea water from the cleanest place you can find. Some folks in Washington state hire out-of-work fishermen to go out a couple hundred miles on the Pacific and pump water up from the ocean depths. Other folks just purchase filtered water from the Great Salt Lake or the ocean from commercial sources which supply this. It is very important to get clean water as some people have gotten sick using dirty or contaminated ocean water.

The Wet Method is quite simple. All you do is slowly take the pH of your sea water up to exactly 10.78 using a lye (sodium hydroxide) water drip (titration). You take the resulting precipitate and wash it three or four times with distilled water and you are done.

A comparison of the ORMUS yield from various water sources can be found at:

http://www.OrmusMinerals.com/ormus4.htm

The thing that lead us to suspect that the ORMUS elements were relatively abundant in various fossil clays is that people were making similar claims for their healing properties to the claims that are being made for the healing properties of the pure ORMUS elements. A compilation of these healing claims can be found at:

http://www.OrmusMinerals.com/health/health.htm

and at:

http://www.OrmusMinerals.com/health/another.htm

The diary of a woman who has been drinking water from the magnetic traps is available on the web at:

Trap Water Diary
http://www.OrmusMinerals.com/twdiary.htm

This diary includes pictures of new enamel growth which has filled in one of her broken teeth.

While these claims seem totally outrageous in the context of conventional medical theory they can be explained in the context of alternative medical theories. Suffice it to say that we believe that these ORMUS elements are proto-nutrients--that is they are components of many other nutrients--and they appear to repair the DNA to a healthy template.

People who take the ORMUS materials in conjunction with a rich mineral supplement like the fossil clay materials seem to heal more rapidly than folks who rely on the ORMUS alone.

As I mentioned earlier, plants seem to be able to concentrate the ORMUS elements, as well. The most healing herbs also seem to contain the highest levels of these elements. A couple of charts which provide a comparison of these levels among a group of healing herbs can be found at:

http://www.OrmusMinerals.com/health/sources.htm

With our new ability to identify, isolate and concentrate the ORMUS elements we will be better able to determine which mineral rocks and clays are most beneficial to agricultural soils and, eventually, we may be able to make cheap ORMUS concentrates available to organic farmers everywhere.