The original Great Salt Lake (GSL) mineral and trace element supplement formulas were derived from the Andersons’ evaporation ponds situated on the environmentally pristine GSL’s northern coast. In the 1960’s, the Andersons’ were inspired by the news articles from Dr. George Crane advocating the importance of the minerals from sea water and their impact on human health. The Andersons’ recognized that the GSL in Utah USA was a superior source of these minerals. In 1969, they created Mineral Resources International Inc. (MRI Inc) and were the first to sell bottles of these minerals for use as mineral and trace element supplements.

Today, the Andersons continue to harvest the minerals of the GSL through an all-natural solar evaporation process. It takes an average of 2 years of solar evaporation, in an extremely isolated location, on a solid bed of mineral crystals to craft MRI’s products. During the time these brines are exposed, in shallow evaporation ponds, to the 4 distinct, annual seasons; the sun, moon and stars all contributing to the subtle energetics and supreme quality of MRI’s end products.

The Great Salt Lake itself covers some 6,000 square kilometres and represents a terminal collection of the rivers and streams. The drainage system covers an area of 90,000 square kilometres of the Rocky Mountains. The rocks and soils that comprise the drainage basin represent all the major lithologies - igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary - and cover the entire time span of the Geological record - from Pre-Cambrian to Recent. In addition numerous hot water springs originating from deep underground also feed into the waters of the GSL. As a result, the waters of the Great Salt Lake contain within them - rather like the Sea itself - in a dissolved ionic form, all the elements present in the Periodic Table. 

To obtain their premier products the already concentrated brine of the Great Salt Lake is concentrated further in evaporation ponds to dramatically increase the concentration of dissolved elements. As a result 98% of the water originally placed into the ponds is evaporated and 99.5% of the sodium chloride is removed via natural precipitation from what becomes a super saturated solution. Accordingly, MRI’s products are a series of highly saturated, ionic, brine solutions.