Ε6206 - INDUSTRIAL MINERALS

INSTRUCTORS

COURSE KEY ELEMENTS

COURSE CONTENT:

A. Lectures

Commodities & Specialties in Industrial Minerals. Deposit formation. Industrial minerals’ applications. White carbonates & talc. Fire retardant raw materials. Glassy & zeolitic tuffs. Diatomites. Fly ash. Phosphorites, Industrial clays, Genesis, beneficiation, industrial applications, exploration and mining. Milos, the island of minerals/description of the main industrial minerals of the island: perlite, bentonite, kaolin, pozzolana, diatomite. Evaporites, borates, sodium sulphate and carbonates, celestine. Modes of formation, methods of investigation, industrial uses. Quartzites and feldspars . Garnets-Wollastonite. Special building materials. Cement and concrete raw materials. New trends in Industrial Minerals and Rocks. Methods of exploration, sampling, mining and processing. Exploitation of industrial minerals and environmental impact.

B. Practicals (laboratory work and exercises):

• White carbonate rocks of Hymettus area.
• Asbestos, talc, onyx, slates-marbles of Hymettus
• Study of geological maps 1: 50,000 of IGME
• Neogene rocks of the island of Aegina
• Development of lightweight Aggregates (Lightweight Aggregates LWA) for use in lightweight concrete (Lightweight Concrete LWC), soil projects and agricultural applications.
• Enrichment of poor kaolinite deposits. Perlite-vermiculite swelling.
• Determination of CEC
• Macroscopic identification & description of industrial minerals & rocks

C. Fieldwork

One-day fieldtrip in Hymettus Mt: Practice in the identification, first assessment, mapping and sampling of Industrial Minerals and Rocks

One-day fieldtrip in Aegina Island: Practice in the identification, first assessment, mapping and sampling of Industrial Minerals and Rocks

One-day fieldtrip at the Archaeological site of Eleusis: Practice in the recognition of construction materials in antiquity.

LEARNING ACTIVITIES - TEACHING METHODS:

PLANNED LEARNING ACTIVITIES:

ASSESSMENT METHODS AND CRITERIA

Student assessment is in Greek (there is a possibility of assessment in English for Erasmus students). The final grade comes by a combination of exams, tests and essays which include:

I. Presentation in-Public

• Assignment of a report in the form of a review on topics related to Industrial Minerals and Rocks and public presentation to all students attending the course.

II. Laboratory exercises

• Problem solving and writing related reports during laboratory work.

III. Active participation in fieldwork and

• composing relevant reports

RECOMMENDED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Suggested Bibliography

• Παπούλης Δ, Λαμπροπούλου Π., 2016, Ορυκτολογία: Συστηματική ταξινόμηση των ορυκτών, [Κωδ. ΕΥΔΟΞΟΣ: 77112087]
• Ciullo A.P. Industrial minerals and their uses. A Handbook & Formulary. Elsevier, 647 pages (1996)
• Ι.Γ.Μ.Ε. Ελληνικός Ορυκτός Πλούτος – Νέες αναπτυξιακές δυνατότητες για βιώσιμες και παραγωγικές επενδύσεις (2011)
• Stamatakis M, 2017: Laboratory booklet for the course “Industrial Minerals and Rocks”, (in Greek).
• Stamatakis M. and Katerinopoulos A., Applied Mineralogy – Petrology. Industrial minerals and rocks and their uses (1995) in Greek
• Τσιραμπίδης Α. Ο ορυκτός πλούτος της Ελλάδος. Εκδόσεις Γιαχουδη Ι.Κ.Ε. (2005)

Related scientific Journals

• Industrial Minerals,
• Cement and concrete composites, Elsevier
• Clays and clay minerals, Elsevier
• International Journal of Mineral Processing, Elsevier
• Economic Geology, Society of Economic Geologists (SEG)
   

¹ V.S.: Visitor Students (e.g. ERASMUS)