Welcome To Satish Minerals

The clay-called kaolin-is all around you, unseen and unsuspected, in dozens of things you use or wear. It is probably
in the magazine page you are reading . . . in the rubber heels on your shoes . . . in the china dishes on your shelf . . .
in the porcelain glaze on the kitchen sink . . . in the latex paint you just used to paint the spare bedroom.

For kaolin serves industry in numerous ways. As filler and coating agent it adds body and a glossy white surface to
printing papers. As an ingredient in natural and synthetic rubber product it increases resistance to abrasion and wear in heels, soles, tiling, flooring, footwear, conveyor belt covers and bicycle tire treads. It is useful, too, in the manufacture of rubber hose, tubing, jar rings, insulated wire, sponge rubber, molded goods, toys and novelties.

Earliest use of kaolin was in chinaware, and it is still an important ingredient in china, pottery and ceramic products.
In more recent years kaolin has proved valuable as filler in insecticides, home and industrial adhesives, reinforced
plastics and paints. Producing kaolin for the market involves four steps: ( 1) finding the clay in commercially recove-
rable quantities, ( 2) removing it from the earth, ( 3) pulverizing it and removing impurities, and ( 4) transporting it
to the manufacturers that use it.

When a clay deposit is discovered, test holes are drilled at closer intervals. Core samples are taken at every foot of
depth in the clay and are run through searching laboratory tests. All this determines the extent, the thickness and
the slope of the deposit, how much earth lies over it and the type of clay found ( it varies, even in the same deposit)