The ceramic industries situated near Tamil nadu area can make use of the ball clay available in Kerala and Neyveli Lignite mines in Tamil nadu. The Padappakara Ball Clay available in Kerala is of medium plastic in nature and contaminated with siliceous and carbonaceous impurities. By better beneficiation process this clay can be converted into useful ball clay for Tiles, Sanitary ware, Table ware, and Porcelain industries. People owning the clay mines can invest in the beneficiation plant and alternatively people who wanted to use this clay can have their own ball clay beneficiation plant. This will reduce the dependency on the long distance mine clays and the cost of transportation will considerably come down.

Posted by Saseedaran Kumaran on July 26th, 2009 at 2:15 pm
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