Kaolinite, a clay mineral formed by octahedral and tetrahedral sites (1:1), is the mineral that is most found in soil and sediment, mainly in humid tropical regions (Corrêa et al. 2008). This clay ...

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Short-wave infrared (SWIR) results, which help identify clay alteration minerals, indicate that the two NE-oriented holes (24RNGDD001 and 24RNGDD002) contain low-temperature white mica and clay ...

In order to determine the exploitation potentiality of a kaolin deposit from Atacama in the north of Chile, two types of kaolin (K-1 and K-2) were characterized by XRD, XRF, SEM/EDXS, size ...

SAMPLES of sandstone containing well-crystallized material belonging to the kaolin group of minerals have been collected and examined microscopically (by F. S.). In thin sections of the rocks the ...

ABSTRACT: The results on the elemental and mineralogical compositions of clays from Central Uganda differed from those from the volcanic sediments of the Mt. Elgon in Eastern Uganda. Utilisation of ...

The results indicated that the main metamorphic minerals of the two samples are dickite and the color-causing factor of the yellow part is pyrite. This research provides basic theoretical research ...

The intrusion-related diagenetic processes include the dissolution of quartz grains, rounded quartz overgrowths, and calcite cement, and the transformation of kaolinite into dickite and chlorite.

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Beijing Key Laboratory of Materials Utilization of Nonmetallic Minerals and Solid Wastes, National Laboratory of Mineral Materials, School of Materials Science and Technology, China University of ...