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Location
The Marfa Zeolite Project is located 29 miles south of Marfa, Texas. In Presidio County, on State Highway 169, then 2 miles west on an all weather dirt road from the Plata railroad siding. An active railroad that connects Mexico to the USA is immediately adjacent to the leases with the nearest railway siding about 2 miles away.
Ownership
CAP has a lease on fee simple lands controlled by the Surratts. The lease calls for a $3 per ton royalty payment and annual advance of $30,000 minimum with an option to buy the royalties in a lump sum amount of $400,000. The lease agreement covers over 5,200 acres, and includes 188.5 acres of surface and subsurface rights. The leases and fee mineral holdings are located on private lands held by the Surratt Ranch.
Geologic Setting
The zeolite bearing formation is an altered tuffaceous material that is exposed in several road cuts in the area. The zeolite present is the mineral Clinoptilolite
Patents and Trademarks
CAMI is the owner of U.S. Patent No. 5,387,738, upon which an engineered product is based which utilizes all naturally occurring non-hazardous minerals for the remediation of sites contaminated with hazardous and/or toxic materials.
The Company has applied for Trademarks governing the CA Series of Products CA-1 through Ca-6. The Company has acquired the trademark for the Company's "ReNuGen™", a product used to enhance the efficacy of conventional waste water treatment plants.
Current Work
The company has mined and stockpiled raw ore which it processes occasionally to make sales of ReNuGen™ to the waste water treatment industry.
Currently the company is conducting a geologic field mapping campaign and drilling and sampling program to delineate a mineral reserve to support a large scale mining operation. The program involved the drilling of 3000 feet amounting to 42 holes. The holes are spaced no more than 100 feet by 100 feet with half the holes at 50 feet by 50 feet. Sampling is taking place every 5 feet with 10 foot composites being sent out for analysis. The geologic study and reserve report are due at the end of January 2007.
Dr. Norm Schmidtke an internationally recognized expert in wastewater treatment technology has been appointed a technical advisor to CAMI. His role will be to help search out opportunities for commercialization of the Marfa Zeolite.
Other ongoing activities are gear to finding a strategic partner to help with the R & D, marketing and logistics of the commercialization process.
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Minerals
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