Hay, Mom is right, it is a calcium magesium compound, you also need the
magesium in your diet, dolomite won't hurt you it is good for you, most
people do not get enough magesium in their diet. Of coourse you could take
a calcium pill and a magesium pill will do the same thing.  John Bernard
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> From: Sher Williams <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Dolomite for snails?
> Date: Wednesday, July 08, 1998 7:48 PM
>
> Excellent, I am glad someone corrected me, now I know not to always
listen
> to my mother (a health freak).
>
> Is there anything in it that may be harmful to snails?  And if snails
> ordinarily get there calcium from the dirt and the food they eat, could
> something similar (perhaps the chalk dust mantioned) be mixed into their
> dirt?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Aydin Orstan <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Tuesday, 7 July 1998 22:50
> Subject: Dolomite for snails?
>
>
> >Dolomite, the mineral, is not "pure calcium", it is CaMg(CO3)2. I don't
> know
> >if the snails can utilize it.
> >
> >A.
> >