Industrial Minerals and Metals of Illinois

Download or read book Industrial Minerals and Metals of Illinois written by J. E. Lamar and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-11-05 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.