Part Three: Micro Nutrients
We believe the 20 acres of land fantasy originates from Rockland themselves presumably to convince larger distributors that T. J. Clark cannot supply enough product to support sales, hence the claims about the size of their own operation. Those 20 acres have nothing to do with T. J. Clark and are a complete fabrication.
The fact is, T. J. Clark personally owns the most valuable land, Last Chance Ranch, and controls through leases and claims more than 500 acres. Consider that beginning with the original T. J. Clark, hundreds of thousands of acres in several counties were prospected with many geologists and much equipment, core drilling, aerial surveys etc., over a span of more than 50 years looking for additional sources of materials to make the original product. This was before Rockland, Elmer Heinrich, Joel Wallach, etc. had even heard of Colloidal Minerals.
So let's make this clear.... T. J. Clark controls all of the property capable of making T. J. Clark's Minerals! T. J. Clark is not remotely interested in the materials Rockland and others use. The fact is there are millions of acres capable of making a product that could accurately be described as "colloidal minerals." That doesn't mean they are necessarily beneficial as a health supplement, in fact it would be best to suggest just the opposite and this is probably why the detractors attack Clark. They have only used the 'competition.'
The T. J. Clark product gained notoriety because of what it did for people. It helped people because of what it is. It works because of its unique molecular structure, not just because it can be called colloidal minerals. The distortions in the "Colloidal Mineral Story" are a consequence of the popularity of the original T. J. Clark Product. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out what happens to a story when hundreds of companies try to get their share of sales from what is presumed to be a "hot product."
The only way to discover the truth is to go to the source, not someone thousands of times removed from the original discovery. Again, the fact is, most often those who critique the original T. J. Clark and his product are not critiquing T. J. Clark but rather what competitors say about T. J. Clark. The result is mindless defamation.
Sometimes the war of words makes it tough to distinguish Clark from a host of competitors; however, Clark doesn't put sugars and chemicals in their own stuff. The businesses they sell to sometimes do.... Detractors try to blame Clark but I do not blame Ford when I mistreat my automobile. That is the purchaser's doing, not the company's.
Clark's main rival, Rockland Corporation's Body Toddy Mine, opened in 1985, produces products for American Longevity, Body Systems Technology, Source of Health and LifePlus. Rockland once leased land in Emery County and a production/bottling facility in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Its reserves are estimated to be 320 million metric tons of shale, enough for 950 billion gallons of product. Rockland has no qualms about the source of its products and several color photos of mining operations are prominently displayed on its home page. Again, it's what they do to the product (not as nutrient dense as Clark's) that turns me, and the detractors, off...
It looked like a good motive (cheaper product, higher profits) for what occurred originally with Rockland, i.e. break their contract with T. J. Clark and make their own product but once again, the main point however is that Rockland has not and does not remotely provide the same product as Clark. New Vision International and Nature's Sunshine have refused to disclose the source of the leachate used in their products.
Part Four: T.J. Clark Minerals
Wallach's supporters frequently describe him as a Nobel Prize nominee because the Association of Eclectic Physicians nominated him in 1991 for his research on cystic fibrosis. Detractors will say this is a naturopathic group with no scientific standing but I have yet to meet a detractor nominated for a Nobel Prize in ANYTHING. They claim his research findings were invalid because the people he studied were self-selected, and not randomized but all studies are based upon VOLUNTEERS.
They say he did not follow an appropriate data-gathering protocol, that his diagnoses were made with a questionnaire and his reports made claims about other data that were either unsupported or unreferenced. If this is true, why do myself and hundreds upon hundreds of my own customers feel and look so much better since using the minerals found in my PERFECT VITAMIN? Because detractors are nothing more than mean spirited and jealous that someone else is smarter or more successful than they are. That's sad...
Wallach expresses that we are living in a chemical soup and being bombarded by electronic, magnetic, physical, and mental stress that our forbearers did not have to deal with (SMOG, CHLORINATED DRINKING WATER, POWER LINES, BOSSES WHO EXPECT YOU TO DO THEIR WORK FOR THEM...), that most diseases are symptoms of mineral deficiencies and are virtually 100% presentable (the body needs nutrients to live and function properly, like a football team needs coaching to play well, it also needs fans for support... minerals are the motivated fans carrying the team to Disneyland...) and that most of us are slowly starving to death (eating candy bars, chips, fast food and other things devoid of good nutrition. YES we are starving or at least malnourishing ourselves fat... those foods haven't the nutrients in them to help burn them off... so we get fat and depleted.... we take lipotropics full of minerals... we burn fat again...)
This is why Wallach says colloidal mineral supplements can rescue us from these dire straits. I like Wallach. Sure, he exaggerates like anyone from a farm town telling Paul Bunyan stories but Wallach has a sincere down-home manner and is a compelling speaker because most of what he says is right on the money. Where does he exaggerate? Well, he says every time you don't take your minerals in daily, you're chopping off a few hours or a few days of your life. I do not know about DAYS but if we are allotted by GOD to live 120 years and we go a day without enough minerals and lose a day of life, well, that means we lose half our days and die at age 60.... Wait a minute, maybe he has something....
But can we believe his sincerity? He reportedly collects a 25-cent royalty on each of the millions of tapes sold to distributors and customers to promote imitations of TJ Clark's high quality product. Once again, these products are not remotely the same except that they can be called colloidal minerals, which is a very vague and general concept. If they were really phytogenic products which I sincerely doubt, it would still be like comparing oranges with tumbleweeds.