Industrial Uses of Natural Bentonite

Natural Bentonite, with high cation exchange capacity,

has high adsorbent and binding properties, and is USED as

•   Adsorbent: base lining sealant for dams, stockpiles, slimes

    dams, tailing dumps, waste dumps and landfills by mines,

    civil engineering industry, power stations and municipalities

•   Adsorbent: treatment, neutralization and purification of

     waste water and acid mine drainage (AMD) by mines,

    municipalaties water treatment plants, water authorities and

     affluent-generating  industrial operations

•   Binder: stainless steel foundry moulds and low-sell ore fines

     pallets in stainless steel plants, and treatment in agriculture

Industrial Uses of Activated Natural Bentonite

Activated natural bentonite,  produced from natural bentonite, has
high binding, gelling and swelling (sealing) properties, and is USED as:

•   Binder:  foundry moulds for cast products and grinding media

     in steelmaking

•   Binder: ore fines pelletizing by ferrochrome plants and steel mills

•   Gelling: drilling muds (vertical drilling and horizontal directional

    drilling(HDD) in tunnel drilling, gas drilling and fracking

•   Sealant: Sealing off leachates in dams, dumps and landfills lining

Uses of clastic and shale clays

An inert clastic clay (an aluminium silicate compound) with rigid yet

plaible, low-swell and no-shrink, low cation -exchange capacity, gelling
and ultra-high temperature resistance properties in mainly used in

•   Fillers and shock-wave plugs, ceramics and earthenware, roof and
     floor tiles, and refractory bricks