Industrial minerals

Industrial minerals

Industrial minerals are geological materials which are mined for their commercial value, which are not fuel (fuel minerals or mineral fuels) and are not sources of metals (metallic minerals).They are used in their natural state or after beneficiation either as raw materials or as additives in a wide range of applications.

Examples and applications

Typical examples of industrial rocks and minerals are limestone, clays, sand, gravel, diatomite, kaolin, bentonite, silica, barite, gypsum, and talc.Some examples of applications for industrial minerals are construction, ceramics, paints, electronics, filtration, plastics, glass, detergents and paper.

In some cases, even organic materials (peat) and industrial products or by-products (cement, slag, silica fume) are categorized under industrial minerals, as well as metallic compounds mainly utilized in nonmetallic form (as an example most of the titanium is utilized as an oxide TiO2 rather than Ti metal).

The evaluation of raw materials to determine their suitability for use as industrial minerals requires technical testwork, mineral processing trials and end-product evaluation; free to download evaluation manuals are available for the following industrial minerals: limestone, flake graphite, diatomite, kaolin, bentonite and construction materials. These are available from the British Geological Survey external link 'Industrial Minerals in BGS'.

List of industrial minerals

*Aggregates
*Alunite
*Asbestos
*Asphalt, Natural
*Barite
*Bentonite
*Borates
*Brines
*Carbonatites
*Clays
*Ball clays
*Kaolin
*Coal
*Corundum
*Diamond
*Dimension stone
*Diatomite
*Feldspar and Nepheline - Syenite
*Fluorspar
*Fuller's earth
*Garnet
*Gem minerals
*Granite
*Graphite
*Gypsum
*Kaolin
*Kyanite / Sillimanite / Andalusite
*Limestone / Dolomite
*Marble
*Mica
*Olivine
*Perlite
*Phosphate
*Potash –Potassium minerals
*Pumice
*Quartz
*Salt
*Slate
*Silica sand / Tripoli
*Soda ash
*Sodium bicarbonate
*Sodium sulfate
*Staurolite
*Sulfur
*Talc
*Vermiculite
*Wollastonite
*Zeolites

ee also

*Minerals
*List of minerals
*List of minerals (complete)
*Industrial Minerals magazine


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