Rather, we harvest these dried plants, grind them up into a very fine flour, and leach out the minerals. Of course, the plants took the minerals from the soil millions of years ago. So it's very unique. ALL other liquid minerals on the market today are a fine clay or ground up rocks. The very big difference is they're inorganic.
Paint is a colloidal suspension of pigments in oil.
The oil is a thick enough medium that the paint pigment stays in suspension for a long time. After a while it settles. And then you have to shake it to get it all back into suspension.