Basaltic Pumice and Basalt
Basic pumice is called
as “Scoria” in literature, it is a kind of pumice that the specific gravity is
around 1-2gr/cm3 and it is mined out in the nature brown, black, reddish
colors. The old name for scoria is cinder or volcanic cinder. When it is used
for landscaping it is mostly called as “lava rock”.
Basaltic pumice or with
the other name lava rock is a highly vesicular volcanic rock that basaltic or
andesitic in composition. Basaltic pumice is low in mass as a result of its
numerous holes or vesicles, but consider to pumice, all scoria has a specific
gravity greater than 1, and because of that sinks in water.
Basalt is the most
basic rock of Gabro subgroup and one of the black color, homogenius, highy
density and heavy volcanic rocks. The reserves are mostly massive, core and
effluence
It’s mostly used as
paving, construction rock, bridge construction rock, railway ballast material,
stabilisation and protection of offshore pipelines, cables and other kind
installations.
The Uses of lava rock
(basaltic pumice and basalt);
• Cement products as an additive
material
• Concrete blocks
• Lightweight concrete
• Concrete bricks
• Aggregates Drainage
• railway ballast material,
• stabilisation and protection of
offshore pipelines, cables and other kinds installations
• Decorative gravels
• Horticulture and agriculture
• Related with a green roof and for a
soil substrate where the plants will grow, lava rock is one of the best
solutions as lava rock provides many advantages such as:
• Saves water (keeps water as it has
porous character, water penetrate to the soil slowly)
• Saves precious nitrogen in the soil
• Protects gardens from snail and slug
attack
• Insulates garden soil from the worst
of heat and cold
• Improves soil by adding elements
• Light and very easy to apply
• Very good for pots insulates and
protects
• Totally natural and no chemicals
Calcite
Calcite is a mineral
name that the chemical structure of it is CaCO3 which is calcium carbonate
rocks forming mineral.
When considering the
growing of the plants and animals in our world, when considering the modern
world, mankind and our daily lives, that’s some like impossible to imagine our
lives without calcium carbonate. Almost every product which we use in our daily
lives, it contains calcium carbonate or during its production it is associated
with the mineral.
Calcium carbonate
reserves are spread throughout the world; although the deposits are plentiful,
only a few are of sufficient high quality to be mined and even a fewer number
of deposits provide raw materials for industrial and agricultural use other
than the construction and roads building industry. Only if the purity, degree
of whiteness, thickness and homogeneity are acceptable, it is worth for the
commercial extraction. After quarrying, further treatment -which are mostly
separating and grinding- is required to process natural calcium carbonates of
the highest quality, known generically as Ground Calcium Carbonate (GCC).
Precipitated Calcium Carbonate (PCC) is a synthetic calcium carbonate which is
produced by industry too. Both GCC and PCC can be used in a wide range of
applications in much kind of products. For each end use there exists a
tailor-made product, where fineness and particle size distribution are
optimally balanced to meet the technical demands and quality of that particular
requirement.
The formation of
Calcite (Calcium Carbonate) which produces as commercial worth in the world are
white, pure lime stone, holocrystalline (which produces in Turkey) and the
formation are white chalk.
The calcite formations
are quite wide in Turkey and especially Nigde area is one of the whitest
deposits in the world as well as in Turkey. The whiteness becomes more
especially after the grinding process. CaCO3 percentage is quite high and that
is the most other important point for the related consumption industries which
calcite is used.
Areas of milled
micronized calcite Consumption
• Paper Industry
• Paint & Coating Industries
• Plastic, Rubber and Cable Industries
• PLASTIC, RUBBER & CABLE
INDUSTRIES
• Construction Industy
• Chemical Industry
• Food Industry
Pure White Gypsum
Gypsum rock is a
mineral which the chemical composition is calcium sulphate. It is also defined
there are two sorts of it in the nature which are called as “Gips (CaSO4.2H2O)”
and “Anhydrite (CaSO4)” and it is also defined
as an industrial mineral which produced “gypsum” for the construction
industry.
The material is called
as Gypsum which is produced from Gypsum Rock by superheating (120-180C) to
remain half molecule in its structure (TS EN 13279-1). Gypsum rock is used in
the construction industry to produce mostly unmixed gypsum mortar, mixed gypsum
mortar and plaster board.
On the other hand the
uses of the chemical fertilizers are decreasing together with the increasing of
the ecologic agricultural implementations on the world, and related with that the
uses of the Inorganic Soil Amendments or with the other name Inorganic
Fertilizers which are produced from minerals have been increasing.
The Usage Fields of the
Gypsum Rock
• The raw gypsum rock delays setting of
the cement.
• The raw gypsum rock uses for the
paper and textile industries as a white paint and filler material.
• Uses for the ferment in the beer
industry.
• Uses in the medical, surgical and
dentistry.
• Uses for the sanitary ware, porcelain
and tile production during the treatment of the mold.
• Uses to obtain ammonium sulphate,
sulphur and sulphur oxide in the chemical industry.
• The gypsum products are the main
input of the construction and prefabricate construction materials. There are
many kinds of uses of the gypsum products in the construction. Gypsum rock is
also used in the recent years as a temperature and sound insulation material
and used as a regulatory for the humidity.
• High Purity Gypsum in the Agriculture
Industry;
• It regulates the pH of the soil.
• It provides the sulphate-sulphur
requirements of the soil without unbalancing the soil balance.
• Improves water penetration to the
soil and eliminates the water retention. Because of that saves the water.
• Reduce the acidity of the sub soil.
• Supports the balancing between the
magnesium, potassium and micronutrients.
• Increase the yield quantity and of
the crop quality.
• It dissolves more than calcium
carbonate and limestone rocks and provide calcium to the soil and plant,
affects more.
Products :
Grey Cement Bagged cement in sling bags , Grey Cement in big bags, Bulk Cement ,
Oil-well cement , White cement , Portland Clinker , Gypsum Stone , Bauxite ore ,
Basalt Stone , Limestone , Slaked lime , quicklime , Calcite , AAC Blocks ,
Ground granulated / granulated blast furnace , slag , Fly-ash
