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SPECIAL CLAYS (Rock chips)

Sold in units with $ 50.00 per unit (Last updated 7/1/2004)

  • CCa-2  (50 grm/unit) Ripidolite (chlorite), FlagstaffHill, ElDorado County, California, USA

·        RAr-1 (50 grm/unit) Rectorite (regular-mixedlayer),GarlandCounty,Arkansas, USA. Pure flakes with some minute euhedral quartzcrystals.

·        SYnH-1 (50 grm/unit) Optigel SH, Synthetic hectorite,Sud-Chemie Rheologicals (United Catalysts Inc.).

·        SYnL-1 (50 grm/unit) Laponite RD, Synthetic layered silicate, Southern Clay Products Inc.

·        SCa-3 (50 grm/unit) Montmorillonite ("Otay"), Otay SanDiego County, California. USA

·        *SWa-1 (50 grm/unit) Ferruginous Smectite, Grant County,Washington,USA

·        SAz-2 (50 grm/unit) Ca-Montmorillonite ("Cheto") in naturalchunk form, ApacheCounty, Arizona, USA

·        *VTx-1 (50 grm/unit) Vermiculite ("Llano"), Llano, Texas, USA. Amixture of magnesite, phlogopite and vermiculite. The vermiculite can beseparated with hand picking.

·        IMt-1 or IMt-2 (50 grm/unit) Illite, Silver Hill, Mont.(Cambrianshale) 1 Md. Char. by Hower, et al., Amer. Min. 51, p.825-854,1966)

·        *IWi-1 (50 grm/unit) Illite, Waukesha,Wisconsin, USA (Silurian),

·       * ISMt-1 (50 grm/unit) Illite-smectite mixed layer (60/40 ordered),Mancos shale Cretaceous.

·        ISCz-1 (50 grm/unit) Illite-smectite mixed layer (70/30 ordered),Czechoslovakia.

·        NAu-1 (50 grm/unit) Nontronite, green color, Al-enriched, From Uley Mine, South Australia, Collected and supplied by John Keeling, MarkRaven, and Will Gates, CSIRO.

·        NAu-2 (50 grm/unit) Nontronite, brown color, Al-poor,contains tetrahedral Fe, From Uley Mine, South Australia, Collected andsupplied by John Keeling, Mark Raven, and Will Gates, CSIRO.

·        NG-1 (10 grm/unit) Nontronite, Hohen Hagen, Germany. Nontronitecemented sand (15-20% nontronite), easily separated by wet sedimentation(charact. by Schneiderhoehn, Tschermaks Min. u. Pet. Mitt.10, p.385-399,1965)

·        *CorWa-1 (50 grm/unit) Corrensite, Pachwook, WA. (Ohanapecoshform.). (Altered Eocene tuff, containing 25-50% corrensite; quartz andplagioclase impurities separable by wet sedimentation)

·        *SapCa-2 (50 grm/unit) Saponite, Ballarat, CA. (contains up to 3%diopside, separable by wet sedimentation)

·        SepSp-1 (50 grm/unit) Sepiolite, Valdemore, Spain (Miocene age,containsminor calcite)

·        *SepNev-1 (50 grm/unit) Sepiolite, Two Crows, Nevada (pub.ref.:Clays & Clay Minerals, v.26, p.58-64, 1978)

·        *SBCa-1 (50 grm/unit) Beidellite, California, USA

·        SBId-1 (50 grm/unit) Beidellite, Idaho, USA

·        CAr-1 (10 grm/unit) Cookeite, Arkansas, USA (Cookeite flakesscattered on surface of rock chips)

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