Role of mineralogical and technological evaluation in development of processing technologies for zeolite-containing rocks

Abstract

The article presents a rational package of mineralogical and analytical research methods including a high-resolution optical microscopy, X-ray, morph metric, granulometric, thermal gravimetric and elemental analyses, magnetometry, IR spectroscopy and methods of toxicological, radioactive and hygienic assessing, which provides reliable mineralogical and technological evaluation of complex composition and structure of zeolite-containing minerals in Eastern Transbaikalia. The evaluation consists in defining chemical and mineral compositions of rocks, sizes and micro-concretion of grains, nature of micro-inclusionds and distribution of elements.