United States Antimony Announces Bear River Zeolite 2003 Sales up 120 Percent over 2002.Business Editors THOMPSON FALLS, Mont.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 22, 2004 United States Antimony Corporation (OTCBB OTCBB See OTC Bulletin Board (OTCBB). :UAMY) announced that sales from its Bear River Zeolite zeolite Any member of a family of hydrated aluminosilicate minerals that have a framework structure enclosing interconnected cavities occupied by large metal cations (positively charged ions)—generally sodium, potassium, magnesium, calcium, and barium—and water operation had risen by 120 percent during 2003 over those of 2002, with more than 30 customers added in the last three months. Prices had also risen 12 percent during the same period. In a recent development, a Canadian municipal drinking water system serving 3,600 people has replaced its sand and anthracite filter media with Bear River Zeolite. The zeolite has reduced the turbidity turbidity /tur·bid·i·ty/ (ter-bid´i-te) cloudiness; disturbance of solids (sediment) in a solution, so that it is not clear.tur´bid Turbidity The cloudiness or lack of transparency of a solution. by 50 percent, increased the flow rate significantly and reduced the frequency of backwashes. Other recent sales growth areas include animal feed supplements, odor control, nutrition and bedding litter; swimming pool filtration; and waste water treatment. Markets that are being developed include filtration of produced water from oil and gas wells, pozzolan poz·zo·lan also poz·zo·la·na or poz·zuo·la·na n. 1. A siliceous volcanic ash used to produce hydraulic cement. 2. Any of various artificially produced substances resembling pozzuolana ash. for Portland cement, air filtration and retail products. Retail products include horse stall cleaner, floor clean, kitty litter and soil amendments. U.S. Antimony President John Lawrence said, "As we aggressively market zeolite, new customers realize that zeolite has a wide range of practical applications and that Bear River Zeolite is of high quality." Located in southeast Idaho, the BRZ BRZ Bronze BRZ Bundesrechenzentrum (Federal Computing Center, Austria) BRZ Bipolar Return-to-Zero BRZ Baseline Release Zero BRZ Bonded Re-Export Zone operation mines zeolite, a volcanic mineral, from what is considered one of the highest-quality deposits in the United States. Shipments are made to customers throughout the United States, as well as China, England, Japan, Mexico, Peru and Canada. To develop new products and improve the efficiency of the current product line, the Company has launched extensive testing in water filtration, Portland cement replacement, fish, chicken odor control, plant growth, spill testing, waste water treatment, algae algae (ăl`jē) [plural of Lat. alga=seaweed], a large and diverse group of primarily aquatic plantlike organisms. These organisms were previously classified as a primitive subkingdom of the plant kingdom, the thallophytes (plants that control, anti-slip applications and many other fields. |
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