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DATE: Thursday 24th May 2001, 5.30pm for 6pm
VENUE: Rugby Club, Crane Place, Circular Quay
SPEAKER: Sue Border - GEOS MINING
TOPIC: "Skardon River Kaolin Project"
(Image files below)
Kaolin is no longer just an indigestion remedy, but is
a vital ingredient in the paint, paper and rubber industries. Kaolin
is not just boring white overburden concealing a potential orebody,
but can be a valuable resource in its own right. Sue will review the
history of the resurrected Skardon River kaolin project, and discuss
the geology and the features which make this project unique. The
genesis of commercial kaolins will be discussed with comparisons
between Skardon River and some major world kaolin deposits. The talk
will also cover kaolin properties and use, and some of the new markets
emerging for calcined kaolin products.
Sue Border is a geologist with over twenty years experience in the
minerals industry. She has worked in mining and exploration of both
metals and industrial minerals in Africa and Australia. She was
exploration manager for Minerals Corporation Limited where she built
up a portfolio of industrial mineral properties for their IPO which
raised $15m. She supervised the discovery and development of the
Staurolite Ridge garnet mine at Broken Hill. Sue has been working on
the Skardon River project for 15 months, supervising the exploration,
resource update and preparation for mining later this year.
The images presented by Sue to accompany this presentation are now accessible as a web page or an MS Power Point file.
Cay's notes / links to items of interest for Skardon River Kaolin subject:
The international magazine on the nonmetallics and their markets
Ceramics.com - resource for those interested in ceramics, industrial minerals, and related topics
European Industrial Minerals Association
China Clay Producing Association (Georgia, USA)
Industrial Minerals Exchange - developing an online industrial minerals marketplace and trading exchange for industrial minerals
SME Industrial Minerals and Rocks - online publication includes chapters on both clays and kaolin. Kaolin chapter has an extensive
list of references.
SME Industrial Minerals and Rocks - table of kaolin quality factors
Peter Harben, author of "The Industrial Minerals Handbook" and industrial minerals consultant based in New Mexico. Site includes
lists of publications, useful links, & page on derivation of mineral names such as "kaolin" which is from the Chinese Kau-ling = high
ridge, a village in northwest Jiangxi Province, China, where deposits of white kaolin have long been exploited to make fine white
porcelain known as china (see china clay)
NSW Government - Industrial minerals information page
South Australian Government - SA Kaolin resources
Kaolin summary part of Saskatchewan Govt (kaolin producing state)
Serina Kaolin - kaolin producer from South Africa includes specifications of products.
Industrial Minerals - list of interesting links compiled by University of Florida
The Feedjit SMEDG Visitor Map
Which one of the red squares is you?