Hello and Welcome to Montana Bentonite!

Montana Bentonite is a privately owned and operated mom and pop mine and manufacturing venture. We purchased the mine resource property in 2002 from Pegasus Mining. The mine is located along the North side of I-90 at the Gregson/Fairmont interchange, which is about halfway between Butte and Anaconda, at exit #211.

We began production and sales of raw materials for vegetation and water control in the summer of 2002. We began producing cosmetic and health products in 2004.

Much information and history about calcium bentonite is available on the internet and in much literature over many, many years and historical use. It is called “the clay of a thousand uses” and “Fuller’s Earth” from previous and current uses. It is a healing clay and a living clay. I will continue to post more information about calcium bentonite, current uses, including technological, and data specific to our resource body as I develop this website.

Please feel free to contact me as you will. I am pleased that Montana Bentonite and we, personally, have joined the Clay Minerals Society and our local Butte Gem and Minerals Club. Much progress, as well as entertainment, is found in communicating and sharing together.

Bentonite (a.k.a.: montmorillonite) is well known as a natural material beneficial to humans, animals and nature. It has been used since aboriginal times, through native and frontier life and is studied today in origin of life, diseases treatments and nanotechnology. Current literature reports on medical mineralogy, mineralization in cellular structures and nano-composites. Scientific investigations of nanoparticles in dietary products and particle toxicology are forefront in modern concerns with interactions of such tiny, tiny entities in living organisms.

Periodicals and books are readily available on natural materials and products and I highly recommend these to you for your own investigations and understanding.
Again- more on these things as time allows. I will also look to gain permission for internet links on this site to information and reference materials.

With our products and materials offerings I will continue to be candid with such information and descriptions as I have without extending into anecdotal and unsubstantiated or unproven claims and benefits.

Please also let me know if you have website suggestions or a request for linking, etc- this is a learn as I go effort!

Thank you and may God bless.

Kevin Johnson