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Clay/Kaolinite |
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Kaolinite or Klannerite is the trade
name for a deposit of highly altered bedrock ("clay")
on 80 acres of NZ's mineral estate in Mohave County. The
clay has industrial value for white cement and high strength
concrete. |
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The ore deposit (Viva Luz Mine) is located
in Mohave County, Arizona, surrounded by Bureau of Land
Management land in the Warm Springs Wilderness Area. |
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Klannerite is a hydrothermally altered
tuff; alteration has produced a very pure, white rock
consisting of cristobalite, kaolinite, tridymite, and
quartz. The ultrafine grain size plus metastable nature
of the mineralogy creates, after thermal activation, a
high quality reactive pozzolan. Geologic mapping has identified
3 types of Klannerite: K-1, very pure and white; K-2,
slightly off color breccia of the same mineralogy; K-3,
a rock with more clay minerals. |
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Mohave County, Arizona: kaolinite
mining site |
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