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CHARACTERIZATION AND UTILIZATION OF CLAYS FROM ORIGO AND AWO SOUTHWESTERN NIGERIA

Highlights

  • The demand for tiles and bricks is presently on the increase in Nigeria as an average Nigerian can afford to build brick houses with floor tiles instead of concrete floor, the need to explore for more clay

  • Clay is an important raw material found across Nigeria; it is an important industrial raw material needed to manufacture a wide variety of products like, bricks, fillers, coaters, drilling mud, poetry, paper, paint, ink, sorbents and cosmetics [4, 12-15]

  • The results of mineralogical analyses of whole rock samples and clay fractions show that Kaolinite is the dominant clay mineral while smectite occurs in trace amounts

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Introduction

The demand for tiles and bricks is presently on the increase in Nigeria as an average Nigerian can afford to build brick houses with floor tiles instead of concrete floor, the need to explore for more clay. The term "clay mineral" refers to phyllosilicate minerals and other minerals which impart plasticity to clay by making it hard after it has been dried or fired [1-3]. Clay is an important raw material found across Nigeria; it is an important industrial raw material needed to manufacture a wide variety of products like, bricks, fillers, coaters, drilling mud, poetry, paper, paint, ink, sorbents and cosmetics [4, 12-15]. The difference in different clay types is accounted for by the arrangement of the octahedral and tetrahedral structure in the clay [16]. The industrial utilization of clay depends on its geological disposition, mineralogy and chemical properties.

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