Next month, the group also will start test marketing a concept called the Soil Trust, an ambitious loan guarantee for money lent to local enterprises.

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Echale homes are made of adobe bricks called Adoblock, which use local soil.

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They are chemical variants of an antibiotic called rapamycin, which Wyeth researchers found in soil samples from Easter Island in the Pacific Ocean in the late 1960s.

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The finding helped solve a long-standing mystery of how soil bacteria could make such antibiotics and other druglike chemicals, called polyketides.

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The episode is known as the Younger Dryas, because in Scandinavia abundant pollen from a tundra flower called the mountain avens, Dryas octopetala, reappears in soil from this date, indicating that the forest had once more given way to tundra.

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The fungus itself consists of an almost microscopically fine web called a mycelium, made up of long, thread-like structures usually buried beneath the soil.

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The phosphate rock industry there (extracted to use in fertilisers) leaves a waste called phosphogypsum. this is around and about 30 parts per million (ppm, and normal soil is about 3 ppm) uranium and it can most certainly be processed to extract that.

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