Leonarditis 25kg

Leonardite is lignite, oxidized in natural conditions, formed as a result of prolonged weathering. It is a soft shiny wax mineraloid with black or brown color. This is a natural mineral complex of phenolic hydrocarbons. This name is used to denote products for the oxidation of lignite coal with a high content of humic acids.

Oxidized coal was originally named Leonardite after AG Leonard, the first director of the North Dakota Geological Survey (USA), who contributed greatly to the early study of this material. The most common deposits of Leonarditis are in the United States, Canada, Australia and Russia, as well as in some other countries, such as Turkey, Greece, Thailand. The chemical composition of Leonardite, as well as the content of humic acid in it varies from 35% to 90%.

Leonarditis has formed in the process of humification (animal and plant residues decomposed by microorganisms and abiotic environmental factors) over millions of years. In a prehistoric swamp, plants absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and use solar energy to form biomass. The same representatives of the plant world become food for prehistoric vertebrates and insects. At the end of its life cycle, the carbon from dead animals and plants returns to the natural environment, forming sedimentary deposits at the bottom of the swamp. This cycle lasts for millions of years, which leads to the accumulation of organic matter - the layers of compressed sludge turn into leonardite deposits.

Leonardite is mined in the upper layers of brown coal or lignite deposits that are closer to the surface. There is extracted material with a high degree of oxidation and content of organic matter, which is in the process of mineralization, ie Leonardite has not yet completed the process of complete transformation into coal. That is why it is not used as a fuel in the energy industry.

Applications:

The commercial use of Leonardite is due to the use of humic acid and the fulvic acids it contains. Globally, Leonardite is one of the most valuable sources of humic acids. The main difference between Leonardite compared to other products containing humic substances (sapropel, peat, etc.) is the high biological activity of its molecular structure. The unique properties of humic acids from Leonardite are also explained by the molecular weight of their molecules - from 2500 and more. Other sources are inferior in this indicator: sapropel - up to 1000, peat - from 500 to 2500.

The main areas of application of Leonardite are in agriculture (plant growth activator), in the feeding of productive and unproductive animals, birds and fish - in the form of a feed additive (Humic Health), in oil drilling, for soil reclamation and water purification.

One of the characteristics and advantages of Leonardite humic acids over other biologically active substances is their harmlessness to humans. Numerous laboratory tests and clinical trials for mutagenic, carcinogenic, embryotoxic and teratogenic effects have shown that there are no side effects even at multiple doses.