Porcelain Stone from the Karachay-Cherkess Republic is a New Prospective Raw Component for Building Ceramic Production

It is substantiated that development of the wall ceramic materials aimed at improving the quality of products, expansion of assortment and application fields requires complication of raw material compositions. It is shown that high-melting, white burning clays, which are traditionally used for improving the qualitative characteristics of brick , are not always used at operating factories, kilns of which can’t ensure the working temperature over 1050°C. The raw materials of the Marinskoye deposit of modified (refined and kaolinized) granite-porphyries, which can be successfully used in the technology of ceramic brick with the purpose to obtain the high-quality products of light tones including the clinker brick, are presented. The deposit has been explored by YuzhNIIstrom. The Reserves Committee of the Karachay-Cherkess Republic has approved explored reserves of porcelain-stone and put them onrecord in 2014. Main characteristics of raw materials are presented.

N.G. GUROV, Candidate of Sciences (Engineering), Director General (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

OAO «JuzhNIIstrom» (105/1, Nansena Street, Rostov-on-Don, 344038, Russian Federation)

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