scholarly journals Fuller's earth and other industrial mineral resources of the Meigs-Attapulgus-Quincy District, Georgia and Florida

10.3133/pp828 ◽  
1974 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sam H. Patterson

2012 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Teguh Prayogo ◽  
Bayu Budiman

Ketapang area is one of lower part or southern sub-province of West Kalimanatan Province, which is located geographically between 108o40’ and 111o20’ in Longitude and between 0o20’ and 3o04’ in Latitude. This area has various of industrial mineral resources, for example quartz sand. Quartz sand or also calledwith white sand is the reasult of rock weathering that contents main mineral, such as quartz, and felsdpar. Then, the result of weathering is cleaned and transported by water or wind and deposited in the stream side, lake or sea. In this paper will bedescribed concerning to locations, characteristics, and usages of quratz sand in Ketapang area, West Kalimantan Province. Based on chemical or laboratory analysis and interpretation, the quartz sands can be used as glass industry, cement industry material, and moulding industry.



1979 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bennett Frank Buie ◽  
J.H. Hetrick ◽  
S.H. Patterson ◽  
C.L. Neeley


1993 ◽  
Vol 1 (5) ◽  
pp. 5-5
Author(s):  
Louis P. Solebello

What is industrial mineral microscopy? It is the application of any micro-analytical technique used to characterize and identify non-metallic and non-fuel earth materials. Humans have used industrial minerals since ancient times. The earliest known scientific work which dealt expressly with minerals and artificial products derived from them is Theophrastus On Stones. Theophrastus, a pupil and friend of Aristotle, described the use of fuller's earth and gypsum for whitening discolored cloth garments in the latter half of the 4th century, B.C. Fuller's earth is still used today as a decolorizing agent by manufacturers of oil and fat products. Gypsum, of course, is widely used in plaster of paris, cement, and paper.Today, industrial minerals are encountered often by people in everyday life. Electronic, pharmaceutical, cosmetic, construction, paper, and plastics industries use industrial minerals in a multitude of products.



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