Factory full of women cutting sea shells and making them into buttons. Process is shown in detail. Conveyor belt with finished buttons on it. A truck picks up salt in Royal Crystal Salt Company in Utah. Mountains of salt. Great Salt flats. Shots of the Johns Manville Corporation quarrying for Diatomite in Lompoc, California. Product being loaded in to huge trucks. Freeport, Texas: Dow chemical company filters water to extract Magnesium.