Besides pryrite, marcasite, Limonite (or hematite), gypsum and mica recognized under the microscope, the following minerals have been also indentified by X-ray analysis in the Takamatsu Coal and their refuse; they are halloysite, montmorillonite, illite, quartz, feldspars and Calcite, of which halloysite and quartz are commonly involved in each of the preparation products. Because a reasonable amount of halloysite is not rarely included in the second and third class coals, the ashes of these coals are refractory in general, and these coals are, therefore, suitable to the powdered fuels for power plant.
Montmorillonite and feldspar involved more or less in washery slime might have been originated from tuffaceous shale and sandstone intercalated in the coal seam, because they are easy to be swelled by water and to be removed during coal washing procedure.
In the research to produce“pesticide diluent”, the above mentioned washery slime is used as a raw material.
One of the important subject in this research lie in the performance of the structural changes of clay minerals and at the same time, in the combution of the carbonaceous matter in a rotary kiln.
In this treatment the reactivity of clay mineral will be reduced, and aimed a pesticide diluent obtained.
Since the rich deposit of tuffaceous shale and sandstone are recognized in the mining set of the Takamatsu colliery and its' vicinity they must be exploited in the near future.
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