Introduction to Industrial Minerals

✍ Scribed by D. A. C. Manning (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 1995
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 287
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Introduction to Industrial Minerals introduces the reader to the subject of the new mineral raw materials that our society demands. It emphasizes the way in which, in order to satisfy the consumer, the requirements of industry control mineral exploitation, and the way fundamental mineral properties are exploited for particular applications. It describes aggregates, industrial clays and raw materials for the chemical industry. The need for high temperature processing is addressed with a chapter on interpretation and use of mineralogical phase diagrams and time-temperature-transformation diagrams. These are then applied in separate chapters on the manufacture of glass, cement, brick clays and refractories. Evaluation of geological reserves is described in the context of computer modelling of deposit quality, and the final chapter considers the use of a site after extraction, emphasizing the requirements for waste disposal.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Introduction....Pages 1-16
Aggregates for construction....Pages 17-34
Industrial clays: kaolin (china clay), ball clay and bentonite....Pages 35-71
Minerals for agriculture and the chemical industry....Pages 72-96
Fired products: the need for high temperature processing....Pages 97-119
Raw materials for the glass industry....Pages 120-140
Cement and plaster....Pages 141-158
Clays for construction....Pages 159-184
Refractories....Pages 185-199
Assessment of mineral deposits....Pages 200-226
Disposal of waste by landfill....Pages 227-244
Back Matter....Pages 245-276

✦ Subjects

Economic Geology; Mineral Resources