Natural High-Purity Gypsum

Natural High-Purity Gypsum in Abundant Quantity Available for Agricultural & Industrial Use.
Ready to Ship. We mine and market high purity gypsum products to agriculture and industrial
markets in Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, and the state of Chihuahua, Mexico.
About Us
The CL Ranch was founded in 1952
as a family enterprise focused on
large scale farming and ranching,
while also developing investments in
real estate, water and minerals.
Abundant underground water
resources were discovered during oil
and gas exploration in the 1940's and
1950's in this region located 90 miles
east of El Paso, Texas and just south
of the Otero Mesa in New Mexico,
where renewed interest and success
in oil and gas discoveries is occuring
today.
Agricultural Uses for Gypsum
Gypsum from the CL Ranch spreads smoothly, adding balance to soils and plants.When surface
applied (high purity) Gypsum interacts with water, it releases ELECTROLYTES that reduce
crusting and clodding, leaving top soil more porous and supportive of root growth.Soil pores
plug quickly when crusted, blocking water infiltration. Gypsum can solve that problem, while
adding much needed calcium and sulfate to your land.

Soils with high SODIUM content can be managed through the addition of gypsum. The sodium
ions resident in the soil structure and on plant root surfaces are naturally attracted to the
sulfate in gypsum. The attraction of sodium ions to the sulfate in gypsum is so great that the
sulfate in gypsum separates from the calcium in the gypsum to form sodium sulfate, a very
soluble and mobile compound. The newly-formed sodium sulfate moves by gravity with crop
water beyond the root zone. Since the sulfate in gypsum is now gone, only gypsum's very
soluble calcium is left behind at the root zone and in the soil structure for plant uptake to
benefit crops.

Soils with high CLAY content also benefit from gypsum applications. The calcium ions in
gypsum act to loosen clay soils by using natural chemical polarity of gypsum against clay soil
structures. You might like to think of this reaction as similar to that which one gets when trying
to place two north pole magnets together...the two magnets push each other apart. Gypsum
does the same thing in soils and this helps facilitate better water penetration and aerobic soil
structure, which allow more efficient use of water and fertilizers.
Industrial Uses for Gypsum
NATURAL GYPSUM is suitable for use in numerous industrial processes; Portland Cement,
plaster, and fertilizer manufacturing, to name a few.
Portland Cement: Portland Cements typically use 3 to 5 percent gypsum in finish milling to
contol setting action of otherwise highly reactive clinker.
Plaster: Plaster in its simplist form is calcined (cooked) gypsum or Plaster Of Paris. Drywall is
principally made from calcined gypsum. CL Ranch gypsum quality is suitable for many forms of
plaster manufacturing.
Fertilizers: Gypsum is often added to fertilizers as a calcium or sulfur source. CL Ranch
gypsum has about 21% calcium and 17% sulfur content. Gypsum is also used as a filler in many
industrial products. Gypsum is used simply to add bulk and density to more expensive products
needing additional density or bulking.
Our Product
The CL Ranch mines and markets naturally
occurring high purity (>92%) gypsum or
calcium sulfate dihydrate located on part of
our ranch land. Our gypsum is appropriately
processed to suit many agricultural, cattle
feeding and industrial applications.


For more information please visit
http://www.naturalgypsum.com