Mineralogical analysis by the laboratory of Central Mineral Resources, Geological Survey, U.S. Department of the Interior in Denver, Colorado, reveals the major components of Orykta™ include two sulfate minerals: natrojarosite, a hydrated iron sodium sulfate, and gypsum.

The Organic Minerals Review Institute [OMRI] has reviewed Orykta™ based upon the OMRI Generic Materials List, the OMRI Operating Manual for Review of Brand Name Products and has given the generic category of "mined minerals, unprocessed" and classification "fertilizer [F]".

Animal Production

The use of Orykta™ as a food additive provides immediate growth and health benefits in animals - impressing even the most skeptical animal husbandry experts and agronomists. Aside from the nutrient value of Orykta, these benefits are made possible due to the ready assimilation of the product by animal tissue. This salubrious effect is occasioned by the enzyme and bacterial action indigenous to the mineral. An Orykta™-enhanced feed regimen improves animal weight, increases reproductive health and offspring health, and enhances an animal's capacity to withstand the rigors of high production. The results are significantly and visibly healthier animals, increased nutritional value per pound of product, increased yields… and subsequently, improved profitability for the grower.

Agriculture

The near perfect blend of complimentary nutrient components that naturally occur in Orykta™ means plants benefit directly when absorbed through their root systems and indirectly through Orykta's tendency to revitalize the soil conditions and improve the water retention qualities. Water application is often needed frequently to maintain a steady moisture supply. Often, the dissolved soluble nutrients move into the groundwater, and fertility applications are lost in drainage waters. Sandy soils usually have low organic matter content and low cation exchange capacity. Plants growing on soils amended with Orykta™, however, obtain the nutrients in the root zone. Orykta™ improves the physical properties of many soils by increasing total porosity and water retention, resulting in lower nutrient losses.

Soils farmed under low rainfall often have an accumulation of sodium, which makes leaching an extremely slow process because of low permeability. These soils can be reclaimed by applying gypsum, a hydrated calcium sulfate, to replace the exchangeable sodium, Na+. Due to the appreciable amount of gypsum in Orykta™, it can be used to reclaim medium textured sodic soils. The pH of these sodic soils is usually between 9 to 10. Upon the product's application, the calcium replaces the sodium on the cation exchange site and the resulting sodium sulfate will be leached out from the system by irrigation waters. The soil flocculates, the soil structure is improved, and the soil pH is lowered, typically to around 7 or 8.

Studies have shown Orykta™ provides all the same beneficial effects of gypsum, and then some. As a naturally sulfated mineral product, Orykta™ has an availability of near 100% for absorption by plants and animals. It intrinsically counters saliency and high pH in acidic soils, however, will augment low pH soils.

Field Tests

Extensive scientific testing has been performed on Orykta™ by private, state and government agricultural and science laboratories in the USA and overseas with no conflicting results.

In addition to institutional field testing, commercial testing has been performed with Orykta™ for animal production such a cattle, swine, chickens and shrimp, and for agricultural production including (but not limited to) turf and grasses; fruit and citrus trees; and cash and row crops such as corn, tomatoes, potatoes, grapes, rice, cotton, wheat avocados, and others. All tests resulted in significant increases in product nutrient, health and production.