Volcanic Rock Dust
Soil Remineralization
• Micronutrient Marvel: While chemical fertilizers often fall short, Volcanic Rock Dust provides a rich source of micronutrients that are typically lacking in traditional fertilizers. These micronutrients, including natural calcium, sulfur, boron, iron, zinc, copper, and silica.
• Volcanic Rock Dust is essentially a multi-mineral fertilizer formed over millions of years by volcanic activity. When applied to soil, weathering gradually releases these minerals — mimicking nature’s own soil-building process.
Volcanic Rock Dust is Critical for Soil Remineralization
Soil remineralization with Volcanic Rock Dust is not simply adding minerals back to soil — it is rebuilding the geological foundation of soil depleted minerals that was lost through harvested crops, decades of rainfall leaching, and the narrow-spectrum feeding of synthetic fertilizer for agriculture.
Hallmark:
• Improves Soil Structure: Ca and Si improve aggregation, drainage, and aeration simultaneously
• Zero Chemical Risk: 100% natural, safe for organic farming certification
• Carbon Sequestration: Through a process called “enhanced weathering,” it captures CO2 from the atmosphere and stores it in the soil as carbonates.
• Mineral Re-mineralization: Replenishes over 70 trace minerals and micronutrients (like silica, iron, magnesium, calcium, sulfur, zinc, molybdate and manganese) that are often depleted in soils.
• Structural Strength: High silica content strengthens plant cell walls, making plants sturdier and more resistant to pests and disease.
Extracted from Volcanic Basaltic Rocks which contain high properties of minerals
Provides ample of micronutrients that are usually not available in chemical fertilizers
Micronutrients includes natural calcium, sulfur, boron, iron, zinc, copper, magnesium and silica
| CALCIUM | 4.31 % |
| MAGNESIUM | 2.81 % |
| SULFUR | 0.64 % |
| MANGANESE | 0.09 % |
| IRON | 3.40 MG/KG |
| SILICA | 67.07 % |
Benefits for Soil and Plants:
•SiO2 is the structural backbone and the most important component for long-term soil health.
•For Soil: Slowly weathers into plant-available silicic acid; improves soil texture, drainage, and aeration over time; feeds beneficial soil microbes
•For Plants: Strengthens cell walls, making stems more rigid and upright; dramatically improves resistance to fungal diseases.
•Bonus: High SiO₂ means this Volcanic Rock Dust releases minerals steadily over years — not all at once
•Microbial Activation: Minerals, especially Si and Fe, feed bacteria that make nutrients available to plants
•Disease Resistance: High SiO₂ physically hardens plant tissue against fungal and insect attack
•pH Buffering: Naturally buffers both acidic and slightly alkaline soils toward a neutral range