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Press
Release Archives: 03/25/2003
Itronics
GOLD'n GRO Liquid Fertilizer, an Earth Friendly Product,
Helps Remedy 'Yellow Peach Tree Syndrome'
RENO, Nev., March 25 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Itronics
Inc. (BULLETIN BOARD: ITRO) today reported that its
subsidiary, Itronics Metallurgical, Inc., obtained positive
results from a field fertilization trial that used GOLD'n
GRO chelated micronutrient liquid fertilizers on peach
trees in western Colorado. This allows the Company to
register the product in the state in anticipation of
sale to several peach growers in western Colorado that
have expressed significant interest. The products are
expected to be available for use in Colorado in mid
to late April.
The
trial was conducted during the 2002 growing season on
peach trees in western Colorado by a major Colorado
university. The peach trees were suffering from chlorosis
or "yellow peach tree syndrome," a condition
that has been experienced in western Colorado peaches
for several years and for which a remedy had not been
found. The western Colorado peach growing area is characterized
by alkaline soils and high bicarbonate content water.
The trial used water that was treated to reduce its
bicarbonate content before adding the GOLD'n GRO fertilizers.
The
water treatments plus GOLD'n GRO chelated micronutrient
application produced dramatic visual results with most
trees noticeably greener than they were in the prior
year. Tissue tests showed that the foliage of trees
that received water treatment plus chelated micronutrient
treatment contained higher mineral nutrient levels than
the trees that received only water treatment.
"These
results are exciting and are a further demonstration
of the impressive effectiveness of the GOLD'n GRO chelated
micronutrient fertilizers for improving the health of
tree crops," said Dr. John Whitney, Itronics President.
"We have been getting very satisfactory results
from application of the GOLD'n GRO chelated micronutrient
liquid products on chlorotic wine grapes in the central
coastal region of California and are pleased that they
work on peach trees suffering from a similar condition."
Itronics,
through its subsidiary, Itronics Metallurgical, Inc.,
is the only company in the world with the technology
to extract more than 99 percent of the silver and virtually
all the other toxic heavy metals from photowaste and
to convert the resulting liquid into environmentally
beneficial, chelated, multinutrient liquid fertilizer
products sold under the trademark GOLD'n GRO. These
earth friendly liquid fertilizers, which can also be
used for lawns and houseplants, and the popular Silver
Nevada Miner bars, a souvenir of the Silver State, are
available at the Company's Web site: http://www.itronics.com/
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Itronics
Inc. is one of Nevada's leading process technology companies
and a world leader in photochemical recycling. Headquartered
in Reno, Nevada, it recycles spent liquid photochemicals
into liquid GOLD'n GRO fertilizer products, recovers,
refines, and sells silver, and provides project planning
and technical services to the mining industry. Dr. John
Whitney, Itronics President, was selected as Nevada's
Inventor of the Year for 2000 and has become a member
of the Inventor's Hall of Fame at the University of
Nevada, Reno. Itronics was one of five finalists for
the 2001 Kirkpatrick Chemical Engineering Award, the
most prestigious worldwide award in chemical engineering
technologies.
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OUR WEB SITE: http://www.itronics.com/
(The
statements in this news release that are not historical
facts or statements of current status are forward-looking
statements as defined in the Private Securities Litigation
Reform Act of 1995 that involve risk and uncertainties.
Actual results may differ materially.)
CONTACT:
Paul Knopick, +1-888-795-6336, for Itronics Inc.
Web
site: http://www.itronics.com/
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