Montana Bentonite Store with Information Resource

Calcium Bentonite

Montana Bentonite, LLC

2206 Bossard Road, Anaconda, MT 59711

PO Box 4242 Butte, MT 59702-4242

406-494-5004

Calcium Bentonite Clay- freshly harvested calcium bentonite in Jane's hands

Bentonite Natural Products Store

with Information Resource

Thank you for allowing us to be your direct supplier for this all-natural organic, chelated, colloidal mineral clay: The Healing Clay, Living Clay. Please allow us to be one of your portals to the world of natural products and natural health products, especially!

Calcium Bentonite

for natural personal health and cosmetic care,

for natural animal care,

for environmental materials:

"The Natural Solution!"

Because there has been a proliferation of incorrect and just plain wrong information about bentonites, we are here to offer you nothing but simply effective natural products and straightforward true information. Natural products and ingredients are wonderfully effective when they are the right material for the job and are used correctly. PLEASE don't get mislead into the wrong material for your needs!

Bentonites are not all the same! Let us be clear about this: Calcium bentonite is the mineral clay that has been proven effective for treatment of Necrotizing Fasciitis- the flesh-eating bacteria. Calcium bentonite is under Universities lab studies for "origin of life" and for treatment of cancers. Calcium bentonite clay is the one and the only Healing Clay!

One of our primary policies is that we do not criticize or demean any person's or company's offerings of stuff for sale. Their business is their own. BUT- we want the truth to be known so that competent and caring people can do the best job possible and achieve the desired results. You should not have to suffer or be mislead by wrong information and sales pitches. Fair enough? Please be invited to communicate with us.

This is what it's all about:

Calcium Bentonite: The Healing Clay!

Pure and simple. Get it from the source: Montana Bentonite.

Bentonite Geology:

Calcium Bentonite is an organic, naturally-chelated, colloidal mineral clay. Clay is formed by hydro-thermic conversion of volcanic ash and silt. This bentonite clay body, like most if not all smectite clays, originated 60 to 65 million years ago.

To become calcium bentonite, this deposit was formed by volcanic ash flow which was then heated and pressure-cooked for geologic time under fresh water conditions. The fresh water environment guided this clay to the predominant calcium anionic (negatively-charged) formation, not sodium, which is of salt-water development.

This is a flint clay, which further describes the geologic origin. Yes, this is essentially the same mineral clay as montmorillonite- the French-named equivalent, members of the smectite clay family.

Typical formula for "high-charge" calcium bentonite (which is termed Cheto type):

(Ca): Ca_0.3Al_1.6Mg_0.3Si₄O₁₀(OH )_2.

Much information about calcium bentonite is available in scientific study, in literature and on the internet. Some current information about bentonites is valid and some is not. Aboriginal and native peoples used this clay long before our recorded history. Calcium bentonite has also been called Fullers Earth and "The Clay of a Thousand Uses" from previous applications. Calcium Bentonite has come to be called Southern Bentonite, but our deposit is almost at the 46th Parallel- not very southern. There are also calcium bentonite deposits in Canada.

Perhaps most important to understand is that calcium bentonite is not the same as sodium bentonite. They have different cellular structure and different chemical composition. They behave differently. Sodium bentonite swells up in water and calcium bentonite is minimally swelling. This is one of many important differences and it is important to be clear in this understanding. We do not recommend using sodium bentonites for human health care and animal care applications because they are not produced for this and so have not been analyzed and tested for these. The markedly different swelling behavior of the clay is only one important difference. The chemical composition and cellular structure are also significantly different. Just because sodium bentonite is cheaper does not mean your getting a good deal.

Calcium Bentonite is The Healing Clay and The Living Clay.

It is well known as a material naturally beneficial to humans, animals and nature and is studied today for diseases treatments, nanotechnology and origin of life research.

Some of the attributes of this natural clay:

anti-infective
anti-bacterial
non-comedigenic
anti-toxin
pH neutral: non-acidic

Our bentonite products are helpful for such things as:

all-natural skin aid:

kills and pulls out bacterias from acne and reduces excess skin oil,
pulls infection from cuts and grease burns- relieves the pain immediately!

talc-free baby powder
reducing warts and moles
reducing and softening callouses
foundation under makeup for oil build-up prevention
conditioning and softening rough skin (feet especially!)
strengthening fingernails
ingrown toenails
talc-free bedsore treatment
talc-free deodorant for underarms, feet, shoes and crotch powder
infected earring holes
worker wounds (concrete, wood infections)
custom medicinal poultices

Natural Digestive Cleansing:

natural digestive cleansing and detoxification with bio-available trace minerals for system restoration

While many clays are touted for internal cleansing and detoxification, we have not previously recommended this practice. Calcium bentonite is an organic clay and as such can harbor and support undesired foreign elements such as bacterias. Some of these may be harmful if allowed entry to a living body. We still do not advise taking calcium bentonite internally unless it is shown to be sterilized by the producer.

We have implemented an herbal-design heat conditioning treatment, not irradiation, to kill any potential biological contaminants. So now we can offer our clay for internal purposes.This will be on the store page of Personal Use Clay. This products will be of the heat-sterilized clay. you will notice that the prices are a dollar or two more per pound than the Bulk Clay, which continues as the non-sterilized or raw-material clay.

Yes- you can heat condition the clay yourself if you prefer. In a glass dish such as a Pyrex casserole dish place the clay about two inches thick. Preheat your oven to 200 degrees, then put the clay in to heat (this is not really cooking) for 30 minutes. 200 degrees is not high enough to convert and kill the clay, but it is enough to kill bacterias or other organic contaminants. After heating and cooling, keep the clay in an enclosed container.

Also:

While a human digestive system may over time accumulate fats and poorly-digested materials that can and do contain toxins, heavy metals, preservatives and the like, we still do not recommend a "crash Course" in digestive cleansing. To crash the digestive system and expect it to restart all fresh and new is not going to happen and is not safe to do. Depletion of normal and beneficial enzymes and electrolytes will be damaging and potentially dangerous to a living body.

Yes- our calcium bentonite clay is also recognized for adsorbing toxins and other such foreign bodies to it and will carry these to expulsion from the body. Calcium bentonite is also capable of providing trace minerals that a body may digestively uptake. This is all well and good within the context of good balanced diet with fiber content and calorie control and physical activity, even exercise! Gut muscles are important to digestion!

So- an ongoing program of regular small-dose clay consumption is reasonable. We will now offer both calcium bentonite powder and calcium bentonite capsules to assist you with your digestive health. These are pure calcium bentonite- no additive of any kind. Being 60 million years old, calcium bentonite is not going to wear out during any of our lifetimes and so has no expiration date or need of preservative.

Even as we continue development of our facilities and production, we look forward to working and communicating with you for correct and effective uses of powdered calcium bentonite for both private and practitioner treatments.

Business, commercial and industrial calcium bentonite users:

We are in development our Partners page. Please be invited to contact us directly at 406-494-5004 or kevinj@montanabentonite.com.We look forward to working with you to meet your needs and interests. We do sell our clay through stores and are willing to produce finished products for private labeling. We do not package into SuperSacks or palletize 50# bags, but are preparing to do so.

Research and Development:

In native form, Calcium bentonite is not a nanomaterial. It is capable of nano applications after mechanical and/or chemical processing of shearing to single-cell thickness. Scientific investigations of nanoparticles in dietary products and particle toxicology are forefront in modern concerns of interactions with such tiny, tiny entities. Current scientific and industrial literature contain studies and reports on medical mineralogy, mineralization in cellular structures, nano-composites and more. We do provide samples of our clay for University and Laboratory testing.

Interesting bit: With individual bentonite platelets measuring between 1/5000" and 1/50,000",

1 gram of bentonite,

if separated into individual platelets,

would cover over 800 square meters

(area of about a football field!)

We are here to bring you the best Healing Clay and Living Clay in the World!

We are proud to join the medical, dermatological, naturopathic and homeopathic communities and pledge to serve you with honesty, integrity and candor. Calcium bentonite speaks for itself with positive results in all-natural health care care of skin and digestion for both humans and animals. Natural health care for people and natural health care for pet and livestock are more important every day as we learn about the effects of artificial chemicals on our foods and our environment.

Montana Bentonite is a member of The Clay Minerals Society and The Natural Products Association.

Natural Animal Health:

Calcium bentonite is widely used as a natural feed supplement aiding in both digestion and nutrition uptake of essential minerals and trace minerals. Our calcium bentonite also provides many trace minerals- please see the Trace Minerals lab report posted on the "Bulk Clay Products" page of this website. Calcium bentonite is accepted by the FDA is an organic feed additive for livestock.

Calcium bentonite with distilled water makes a simple and effective poultice for wounds care- cleaning, protecting and aiding healing.Our Pet and Livestock clay we are producing at 100 mesh sizing. This is a slightly larger particle that has better body to penetrate through hair/fur coats and stay in place on the skin..

Powdered calcium bentonite naturally attracts and pulls infections and bacterias from the skin and is effective for many skin and coat needs. One of our own dogs has an issue with clogging pores on her back that turn into sores, so we periodically dust her with our Packer's Friend to clean her back and heal and prevent the sores.

Construction with Clay:

Our calcium bentonite is used regularly for water containment in pond and ditch linings and for water protection of underground structures. This minimal-swelling bentonite also is minimal-shrinking when it drys and so is more stable and durable than the sodium form. Calcium bentonite also provides significant benefits to the surrounding land, the vegetation and aquatics (bugs, amphibians, and the like), fish and to the quality of the water itself.

We offer both weather-softened raw material clay as an inexpensive liner material and pulverized clay for smaller projects. We are pleased to work with owners, designers, engineers and constructors to help achieve success in the many varieties of ground conditions. Our c.bentonite is used frequently under synthetic liners as a protective bedding and a layer for insurance.

We are in development of a separate page to treat this topic more fully and to help you with your water management planning and execution. No body likes building a pond that leaks! (But we can help with repairs of leak problems, also.)

Natural Soil Health:

Montana Bentonite also offers a related mineral ashen silt for an organic soil amendment. This contains very similar plant nutrients and trace minerals without the binding property clay. We have produced this in small pellet and particle sizes to also aid in moisture retention in sandy or gravelly soils. It is also a pH buffer, beneficial to sodic or alkaline soils.

Our clay and ashen-silt products are simply good for plants and for the environment. We offer products having nutrient, trace mineral and moisture-retention benefits for potted plants and for gardens.

We warranty all of our products without reservation.

If you do not achieve the results you wanted or were expecting please let us know and we'll give you your money back. Please see our Store Policies page.

Further- we are also pleased to participate with the FDA and the (relatively) new Adverse Event Reporting (AER) Regulations. We will be installing a link button on this website for rapid AER connection. We will be inserting relevant news articles and links in this site as well as developing our blog and live chat for assistance, information sharing and communications.

Thank you for finding us and for participating with us. We look forward to being your supplier for this mineral clay as well as to being an information resource and partner in the all-natural health community.

Calcium Bentonite by Montana Bentonite

Coming Soon: American Green Clay!

Actually, it's more correctly named "nontronite", not bentonite, because of where the iron molecule is located in the cellular structure. It's a very similar smectite mineral clay, but with extra iron content. When we can get the lab test reports and description together for posting with the product sizes and pricing we'll start offering this "unique in the world" clay to our partners and the public. Until then- please feel free to e-mail us any questions you might have. We'll get it out ASAP!

UPDATE: we're going to delay this for a while until we can install a separate processing line. We need to keep this and our bentonite processing separate, but yes- we will keep working on it.