Industrial Minerals and Metals of Illinois


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This book discusses the mineral and metal resources that come from Illinois. The term industrial minerals are used as a convenient group term for nonmetallic minerals that are not fuels. In Illinois, they include limestone, dolomite, clay, shale, silica sand and other sands, fluorspar, tripoli (amorphous silica), ganister, novaculite, sandstone, feldspar-bearing sands, barite, gypsum, anhydrite, brines, greensand, oil shale, marl, peat, humus, and tufa. The metallic minerals of Illinois are galena (lead ore), sphalerite (zinc ore), pyrite, and marcasite.




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