Where the gift is located and used

Where the Gift is Located and Used: A Personal Discovery

During my research following my vision, I stumbled upon something amazing.  So many coincidences, and so many people around the world, all excited about polyhalite's potential for sustainable farming. They demonstrate enthusiasm for its power to ensure global food supply, while keeping the soil healthy and the carbon sequestered securely within it. In fact, contracts for millions of tons of polyhalite per year are already signed with countries all around the world, as demonstrated by links below, where the separate countries are discussed.  After learning about all these locations, I thought it would be best to put them on a map and to explain them.

What the Stars Are

1 . Beneath the green fields of Yorkshire, England, there's a huge deposit of the same polyhalite I saw in my vision. It was laid down there in the Late Permian period, when therapsids, like the one I saw, roamed along the shores of the Zechstein Sea, when all the world's continents were joined into one. It was geologists who first discovered these deep layers looking at core samples and doing seismic surveys. They discovered this hidden treasure, waiting to be used for a better future.

It is in a band ranging between 1 and 25 meters in thickness, located 1 mile beneath the surface. There are two different mines there, one is called Boulby and it is already operating, shipping and distributing polyhalite around the world. They are producing around 1 million metric tons per year. There is another mine nearby, at Whitby, that is not in operation yet, but is nearing its completion phase. It is expected to begin shipping polyhalite in 2028, at a volume of 5 million metric tons annually, which will be ramped up to 13 million tons in the first years. There is at least an 80-year supply at Whitby. Or perhaps more; some geologists believe that the polyhalite stretches out beneath the North Sea, all the way to Germany, Poland and beyond. Here's a map of the locations of the two mines in Yorkshire:

2. And there are further deposits in other places in the world, including West Texas, in the USA, but still in early stages of development. And amazingly, that deposit in Texas is also from the late Permian Period. 

3. Besides the miners, there are other people very enthusiastic about polyhalite, in fields such as distribution and field testing. There is a company in Poland that has a business relationship with the Boulby Mine, and they have invented a way to take the raw polyhalite rock and shape it into granules that are more user-friendly. They are still organic, as they are not processed chemically, and they are easier to  ship, handle and spread than the chipped rock. One place they ship them to is Ukraine, where there are vast fields of wheat. The farmers there love organic materials that are good for the soil, and are adopting the use of polyhalite to create organically grown wheat that will be shipped worldwide.

5. Brazil is a country that produces and exports many important crops. The more forward-looking farmers and policymakers understand that expanding into the Amazon is not a sustainable practice. They are therefore looking at creating healthier soil and taking better care of the farms that already exist. This is fueling interest in organic crop nutrients like polyhalite, and the mine at Boulby has established distribution channels to get them the polyhalite they need. Here in fact is a link referring to 2.8 milliion tons per year in signed offtack agreements with South America: https://www.spglobal.com/marketintelligence/en/news-insights/blog/japan-ma-by-the-numbers-q4-2023. The mine at Whitby is likewise working to establish distribution channels in Brazil, for when they start up in 2028. Both mines see Brazilian farmers as very important clients for polyhalite. And that's good news for the world, because as Brazilian farmers concentrate more on enhancing the health of the soil of existing farms, that means the Amazon will remain intact, which scientists say is very important for a sustainable future worldwide.

6. India's population is currently nearly the same as China's, and is predicted to soon be the most populous country in the world. Because human settlements cover many areas, while other parts are quite arid, it is important for India to make the best use of its land. That means treating the land with respect, and ensuring that the soil is healthy. The farmers there really appreciate organic crop nutrients, and have taken a liking to polyhalite for being lower in chloride and cotaining the macronutrients potassium, magnesium, calcium and sulfur – the last of which is important for protein synthesis not only for crop plants, but for all the various organisms that live in healthy soil. 

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Credits:

Black and white world map: public domain image from https://ian.macky.net/pat/map/world.html (with added stars)

Map of Permian Basin:  Uwe Dedering, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons (with added lettering)

Whitby and Boulby mine locations map: John Norman, using Google Maps.

Polyhalite fragement: https://goudenkorrel.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/PREZENTACJA-GoudenKorrel-EN-www.eu_.pptx-1.pdf used by permission.

The other photos are for illustrative purposes, linking to their respective websites.