Itronics Inc (ITRO)

Itronics Inc. is the inventor and developer of the Beneficial Use Photochemical, Silver, and Water Recycling technology. The Company produces environmentally beneficial GOLD'n GRO fertilizers, and 5 troy ounce, 0.999 pure, Silver Nevada Miner numismatic bars. Environmentally beneficial, chelated, multinutrient liquid fertilizer products are sold under the trademark GOLD'n GRO. Animal repellent/fertilizer products are sold under the trademark GOLD'n GRO Guardian. The Company also provides project planning and technical services to the mining industry. Itronics Metallurgical, Inc. is a subsidiary of the Company. They have the integrated technology to extract more than 99 percent of the silver and virtually all the other toxic heavy metals from used photo liquids. The Company currently operates two business segments: Photochemical Fertilizer and Mining Technical Services. The business segments of the Company operate under separate wholly owned subsidiaries. Itronics Metallurgical, Inc., operates a photochemical recycling plant and is developing new silver-gold refining technology. Whitney & Whitney, Inc., provides mineral project planning and technical services to the mining industry. The photochemical fertilizer segment is now operating commercially. Prior to 2002, this segment was primarily involved in research and development with the objective of developing integrated technology that can be used to recycle photochemical materials that recover all of the silver and all other toxic metals from those materials, and which utilizes "heavy-metal-free" liquid photochemicals in a chelated liquid multi-nutrient fertilizer product line for turf, ornamentals, and specialty agricultural applications.