At MRI, nature doesn't just play an inspirational role in our manufacturing process it is our process. Each year, the relentless cycle of nature collects, dissolves and then concentrates minerals and trace minerals into the Great Salt Lake. The result is the perfect balance and spectrum of minerals and trace minerals you find only in ConcenTrace® and OmniMin®.

Winter Snow
The story of our manufacturing process begins with the first flakes of snow that dust the majestic Wasatch, Sawtooth and Uintah mountains located in northern Utah. On average, approximately 500 inches of snow falls on the mountain ranges surrounding the Great Salt Lake every year.


Spring Runoff
As winter fades, the waters of melting snow wash over the pristine mountains, drawing minerals and trace minerals from the rich soil. These elements are then transported via various rivers and streams until they are deposited into the Great Salt Lake. Since the lake does not have an outlet, the minerals remain in the lake to be further concentrated by the approaching summer season. MRI's ponds, situated along the pristine northern end of the lake, benefit from the winter snow and spring runoff


Summer Sun
Utah's scorching summer sun evaporates water off the lake leaving behind the nature's process until the inland sea water reaches the proper level and balance of mineral concentration. Once harvested, both in-house and independent laboratories further test MRI's products to ensure a quality, standardised product.


Finest Ingredients
Concentrated minerals and trace minerals are the foundation of our business. All our in house products contain our minerals together with selected quality vitamins, herbs and enzymes to create a superior line of complete and innovative health supplements.


Finished Products
As you will read, the dynamic cycle of nature combined with MRI's expert knowledge, based on more than 32 years of experience of harvesting the nutritional bounties of the Great Salt Lake, results in a superior product that will keep your customers coming back for more. Our quality finished products include liquids, powders and tablets provided in either large bulk quantities or packaged for retail sale. MRI could also create a specific formula to meet your specific manufacturing needs.


The Guiding Philosophy of MRI: Natural Source; Perfect Solution.

Do you get a charge from your vitamin and mineral supplement? It seems so elementary yet this fundamental principle that an individual should notice immediate benefits, including improved energy and vitality, from the vitamin and mineral supplement they consume is elusive for most mineral and trace mineral products currently circulating in the marketplace.

Consider the source of your vitamin and mineral supplement. The secret behind the strength of MRI's products is our source. Because MRI harvests its minerals directly from nature, they contain the minerals and trace minerals your body requires in a form easily assimilated by the human body free from synthetically produced or harmful chemicals. Nature has designed this Natural Source; Perfect Solution.


Natural Source
Located in Northern Utah, the Great Salt Lake is the largest body of concentrated "sea water" in the world. The lake measures 75 miles long by 30 miles wide with a surface area of 1,500 square miles. For millions of years, the forces of nature have collaborated creating an inland lake containing a mineral concentration six to ten times that of ocean water. Due to this naturally high concentration, MRI does not interrupt the life cycle by using chemical constituents and processes to hasten or alter the concentration process.


Free From Impurities (1)
Located in Northern Utah, the Great Salt Lake is the largest body of concentrated "sea water" in the world. The lake measures 75 miles long by 30 miles wide with a surface area of 1,500 square miles. For millions of years, the forces of nature have collaborated creating an inland lake containing a mineral concentration six to ten times that of ocean water. Due to this naturally high concentration, MRI does not interrupt the life cycle by using chemical constituents and processes to hasten or alter the concentration process.

Previous studies have documented Great Salt Lake's ability to self-clean and maintain a natural equilibrium. Organic material is first purified by an extensive system of wetlands leading into the lake. Any remaining organic matter is cleaned by a simple, yet extremely effective bio-system existing within the waters of the lake itself. Heavy metals have been shown to precipitate out of the lake water. In comparing levels of heavy metals in the lake to the levels of those same elements in the average total inflow to the lake, using approximated pre-industrial inflow levels, it is obvious that "contemporaneous precipitation of metals must be occurring."(2) The levels of certain metals is actually lower in the lake water than in the average of the stream flow going into the lake. Only in a liquid form would the elements be free to interact in this way.


1. Adapted from Nutritional Enterprises on Great Salt Lake North Shore Limited Partnership/Mineral Resources International by Corey Anderson and Val Anderson, Mineral Resources International.

2. Utah Geological and Mineral Survey. Great Salt Lake, a Scientific Historical and Economic Overview, Bulletin 116. Ed. J. Wallace Gwynn, Ph.D., University of Utah: 1980, "Heavy Metals in the Great Salt Lake, Utah" pp. 195 -198, quote from p.197.

". . . The total soluble concentrations of heavy metals in the water are extremely low. The heavy metals in the lake, along with clays, organic materials and carbonates, are precipitating to the sediments and deep brines where anaerobic conditions and sulfides formed by sulphate reducing bacteria immobilize the metals. The lake thus avoids accumulation of heavy metals in the lake waters and is non-toxic and self-cleansing. The unique saline condition of [the] Great Salt Lake determines the precipitation and immobilisation of heavy metals in the lake."3

MRI routinely conducts tests during every major harvest period. These tests look for impurities and contaminants including: organic and petroleum chemicals, agricultural chemicals and pesticides, bacteria and heavy metals. These tests have shown a complete lack of impurities. In addition, MRI conducts tests to identify heavy metals using Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) approved tests. These tests have shown the four metals of primary concern to be well below the following levels in all samples tested.


Processing
MRI harvests its unique brand of minerals from the isolated and pristine northern shores of the Great Salt Lake. This location presents several advantages. The remote and pristine nature of the area, far from any pollution sources is an ideal setting for high purity nutritional production. Cut off by the Promontory Mountains on the east and the Union Pacific Railroad fill on the south, the north arm of the lake is many miles from any significant source of pollution. The higher concentration of brine in the north arm is also, obviously, another advantage to production. Since the minerals harvested here are used for nutritional purposes, the emphasis is placed on quality rather than quantity.

The minerals are carefully monitored and managed year round to maximise the content of magnesium and trace elements and provide the overall balance best suited for the human body. The harvesting are carefully maintained in a food grade fashion, similar to an agricultural operation. In addition, care is taken to avoid chemical contamination, much like an organic farm.


Perfect Solution
Minerals are the catalysts for the biochemical processes your body relies on daily just to function.

MRI's liquid minerals create the perfect to today's health needs. Each of our three mineral products, ConcenTrace®, OmniMin® and Inland Sea® Water contain nutritionally significant levels of a number of major nutritional elements in addition to its trace mineral content.

MRI's top-selling product and main ingredient in each of its products is ConcenTrace®, a concentrated product containing 250 milligrams (mg) of magnesium per 2.5ml, which is 80% of the ECRDA. Sodium and Potassium are each less than 10mg and Lithium ranges between 1.4 -2.5mg and Boron between 1 - 2 mg.

Both are nutritionally significant, but no ECRDA's have been set. Sulphate ranges between 30-100 mg., and chloride between 575-800. In addition, ConcenTrace® is also available in stable dry forms using other inert materials.

MRI's second product, OmniMin®, is a slightly less concentrated product with a magnesium level of 200 mg. per 2.5ml. and sodium and potassium levels between 20-35 mg.

MRI's third product, Inland Sea® Water, contains approximately 112% of the RDA of Magnesium in a form highly usable by the human body.

Over the years, MRI has conducted numerous broad-spectrum analyses of its most concentrated product, ConcenTrace®. Following is a summary of data from more than 12 labs in three countries. These testing labs include private labs, government labs, government certified labs, university labs and MRI's own in-house lab.

MRI has compiled the following list of elements, in approximate descending order, based on the best available data. Every element that has actually been found on any test is listed below. (Elements listed on an analysis as "less than," "<," or similarly, were not counted, unless at least one lab clearly indicated that they actually detected the element.*>


Elements and Trace Elements Included in ConcenTrace®

Cl Chloride Mg Magnesium SO4 Sulphur (as total sulphate) Na Sodium K Potassium Br Bromide Li Lithium B Boron Ca Calcium HCO3 Carbon (as total carbonate) F Fluoride Si Silicon N Nitrogen Se Selenium P Phosphorus I Iodide Cr Chromium Fe Iron Mn Manganese Ti Titanium Rb Rubidium

Co Cobalt Cu Copper Sb Antimony (as Arsenic) Mo Molybdenum Sr Strontium Zn Zinc Ni Nickel W Tungsten Ge Germanium Sc Scandium Sn Tin La Lanthanum Y Yttrium Ba Barium Ag Silver U Uranium Ga Gallium Zr Zirconium V Vanadium Be Beryllium Te Tellurium Bi Bismuth

Hf Hafnium Tb Terbium Eu Europium Gd Gadolinium Sm Samarium Ce Cerium Cs Cesium Au Gold Dy Dysprosium Ho Holmium Lu Lutetium Tm Thulium Er Erbium Yb Ytterbium Nd Neodymium Pr Praseodymium Nb Niobium Ta Tantalum Th Thorium Tl Thallium Re Rhenium Pt Platinum

*These analyses also include the six Noble Gasses, which have never been tested for, but are present in sea water and are presumed present in the Great Salt Lake, plus, of course, hydrogen and oxygen as H2O and presumably also as dissolved gasses. = 70 elements have actually been detected with the strong presumption of 78 total and possibly more. Theoretically, all naturally-occurring, soluble elements would be expected to be present once sufficient technology exists to detect them.