Complicated manmade processes for mining minerals from the earth have been used for millennium but no fancy technology or equipment is needed for plants to mine minerals from the Earth. Our bodies "mine" minerals from the plants we eat supplying us with some of the integral elements that make up our bodies and keep them running.

When a seed falls from the plant to the Earth, it immediately begins absorbing minerals and nutrients from the soil. It needs these minerals to undergo the transformation from seed to plant. Different minerals work in very specific ways within plant, animal and human bodies. To see some of the minerals our bodies need and the function they play in our bodies, see the Nutrition Chart.