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    GEOLOGY, MINING, AND

    MARKETING OF THE
    INDUSTRIAL MINERALS
    Virginia McLemore
    and James Barker

    OUTLINE
    What are industrial minerals?
    Why are industrial minerals important?
    Classification of Industrial Minerals
    Class requirements
    History of mining industrial minerals
    Stages of mining

    WHAT ARE INDUSTRIAL


    MINERALS?

    What is a mineral?

    What is a mineral?
    Naturally occurring
    Inorganic
    Solid
    Homogeneous
    Crystalline material
    With a unique chemical element or
    compound with a set chemical formula
    Usually obtained from the ground

    A crystal is composed of a structural unit that is


    repeated in three dimensions. This is the basic
    structural unit of a crystal of sodium chloride, the
    mineral halite.

    What is a rock?

    What is a rock?
    Naturally occurring
    Inorganic
    Solid
    Homogeneous or heterogeneous
    Usually obtained from the ground
    Usually made up of one or more minerals
    Any naturally formed material composed of one
    or more minerals having some degree of
    chemical and mineralogic constancy

    What are industrial minerals?


    Any rock, mineral, or other
    naturally occurring material of
    economic value, excluding
    metals, energy minerals, and
    gemstones
    One of the nonmetallics
    Includes aggregates

    What are aggregates?

    What are aggregates?


    materials used in construction, including
    sand, gravel, crushed stone, slag, or
    recycled crushed concrete
    Fillers and extenders to a certain degree

    Includes
    BauxiteAl ore, but also ore for alumina
    compounds
    TitaniumTi ore, but also ore of TiO2,
    white pigments
    Sulfurfrom pyrite and by-product of CuPb-Zn mining
    Diamondsgemstone, but also industrial
    applications
    Garnetgemstones, but also abrasive

    What are some examples of


    industrial minerals?

    WHY ARE INDUSTRIAL


    MINERALS SO IMPORTANT?

    Why are industrial minerals so


    important?
    Because your world is made of
    them
    Building blocks of our way of life

    Why are industrial minerals so


    important?
    the average American uses about one
    million pounds of industrial minerals,
    such as limestone, clay, and
    aggregate, over the period of a
    lifetime.

    U.S. flow of raw materials by weight 1900-2000. The use of raw


    materials in the U.S. increased dramatically during the last 100
    years (from Wagner, 2002).

    CLASSIFICATION OF
    INDUSTRIAL MINERALS

    Classification of Industrial Minerals


    Alphabetical
    Obscures links between commodities

    Geologic processes
    Igneous, sedimentary, metamorphic
    Misses waste and processes materials

    Tectonic models
    Important properties
    Chemical

    Important properties
    End uses

    Construction
    limestone
    dimension stone (granite, marble,
    flagstone, etc.)
    clay
    diatomite
    perlite
    gypsum
    lime

    Metallurgical
    Bauxite
    Silica
    Quartz
    Dolomite
    Magnesite

    Garnet
    Iron oxide
    Barite
    Pumice
    Graphite
    Asbestos

    Chemicals
    Barite
    Dolomite
    Lithium
    Magnesite
    Phosphates

    Bauxite
    Limestone
    Pumice
    Borates
    Zeolite

    Agricultural
    Phosphates
    Borates
    Clays
    Perlite

    Dolomite
    Talc
    Vermiculite
    Peat

    Glass and ceramics


    Borates
    Silica
    Quartz
    Soda ash
    Kaolin

    Pyrophyllite
    Talc
    Bauxite
    Alumina

    Fillers and extenders


    Barite
    Clays
    Soda ash
    Diatomite

    Titanium minerals
    Gypsum
    Limestone

    Energy
    Clays
    Magnesite
    Graphite
    Lithium

    Drilling mud
    Refining additives
    Batteries

    Environmental
    Bauxite
    Alumina
    Dolomite
    Limestone
    Zeolite
    Asbestos

    Perlite
    Magnesia
    Gypsum
    Pyrophyllite

    Other uses
    Clays
    Dolomite
    Talc
    Magnesite
    Limestone magnesia
    Zeolites
    Nitrates
    Potash
    Salt

    Pharmaceuticals
    Drugs
    Cosmetics
    Food additives

    Without a market, an industrial

    mineral deposit is merely a geological


    curiosity
    Demand feeds back from the end-use
    market, to the end product, to the
    intermediate end product, and finally
    back to the mineral supplier.

    Geologically, most industrial


    minerals
    are widespread
    have enormous reserves
    are easy accessible

    Economically
    development needs less investments
    are cheaper to obtain
    must be closer to the market
    some specialty minerals demand a
    higher market price than metals
    are more effective

    Technologically
    needs less processing
    needs less energy
    less effect on the environment
    possess exceptionally attractive
    properties for the industry

    CLASS REQUIREMENTS

    Class
    The class will meet one day per week for
    90-180 minutes
    Remaining time spent on field trips or in
    occasional extra discussion sessions
    (SME meetings, other presentations)
    Gives time for the presentations and
    project

    Lectures found on my web site

    http://geoinfo.nmt.edu/staff/mclemo
    re/home.html

    Textbook
    Kogel, J.E, Trivedi, N.C., Barker, J.M., and
    Krukowski, S.T., 2006 , ed., Industrial
    Minerals and Rocks, 7th edition: Society
    for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration,
    Littleton, Colorado (use McLemore member
    #0154600 as recommendation) to get this price
    (save more $ than membership costs plus you
    should all be members of SME anyway)

    Specifics
    Exams: Midterm and Finalboth are take home
    exams that will emphasize short answer and
    essay questions.
    Term projectyou are required to do a research
    project that will involve some original work. I will
    give you use of my telephone for long distance
    calls if necessary.
    Field tripsthere will be 2 or more field trips and
    a trip report on each trip will be required.

    Grades
    Midterm
    Final (comprehensive)
    Lab exercise
    Term project
    Class Participation, field trips

    25%
    30%
    5%
    25%
    15%

    Sources of data
    Internet
    http://minerals.usgs.gov/minerals/pubs/c
    ommodity/myb/
    Aggregates
    http://geopubs.wr.usgs.gov/open-file/of00011/
    http://www.minerals.com/
    Societies SME, Aggregate Association

    http://minerals.usgs.gov/minerals/pubs/commodity/myb/

    Term Project
    Lesson plan/poster/web site on
    importance of a specific commodity
    Take a common product and examine
    what minerals/rocks go into that product
    Mineral resource potential of specific
    mineral in a geographic area
    Flow of a commodity in our society
    Related to your thesis work

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