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IN PREPARATION
An eclectic set of images illustrating some aspects of the company's expertise.
Glass Raw Materials Botswana
Silica sand, Mmamabula, Tropic of Capricorn
Glass raw materials Botswana
Silica sand Samedupi
Fluorspar
Open pit, Okorusu, Namibia
Fluorspar
Okorusu, Namibia
Sand and gravel
Birch Quarry, Colchester, UK
Sand and gravel
Kesgrave Sands (flint gravel with sand), Birch Quarry, Colchester, UK
Cambrian Durness Limestone
Morefields Quarry Ullapool, Scotland.
Cambrian Durness Limestone
Morefields Quarry showing ramp structures with limestone thrust over Torridonian and Lewisian in background, Ullapool, Scotland
Clay for Brick-making
Hand moulding, near Peshawar, NWFP, Pakistan
Clay for Brick-making
Traditional brick kiln, near Peshawar, NWFP, Pakistan.
Bauxite
Bauxite in contact with underlying limestone karst surface, Jamaica.
Bauxite
Bauxite extraction in pockets in limestone, near Mandeville, Jamaica
Lateritic Nickel
Area of previous lateritic nickel extraction, Kosovo.
Lateritic Nickel
Magnesite veins in Ni-rich smectite clay, Kosovo
Kaolin product X-ray diffraction pattern
Kaolin containing well-ordered kaolinite and mica, along with minor K-feldspar, Na-feldspar and quartz
Incinerator residue X-ray diffraction pattern
Incenerator residue containing quartz, calcite, magnetite, wustite, hematite, K-feldspar, Na-feldspar, halite, cristobalite and arcanite
Eden Project, Cornwall UK
A former china clay (kaolin) pit now transformed into a tourist attraction.
Eden Project, Cornwall UK.
Bodelva china clay pit (with reserves remaining!) immediately before it became the Eden Project, viewed from approximately the same location as the previous image.
Bodelva China Clay Pit (Eden Project)
Kaolinised granite cut through by greisen bordered quartz-tourmaline veins.
"Pigs' egg"
K-feldspar phenocryst within matrix of kaolinised biotite granite, Bodelva China Clay Pit.
Sand dunes, Namibia
Sarghoda, Punjab, Pakistan
Aggregate production from hornfels and schists
Salt dome
Karak, NWFP, Pakistan. Cliff of salt with foreground depression as a result of dissolution.
Salt mine
Jatta, NWFP, Pakistan
Silica sand
Lochaline, Morvern Peninsula, Scotland. Surface processing of sand from underground mine.
Silica sand
Lochaline, Morvern, Scotland. High purity sand underground.
Emeralds
Swat, Pakistan. Washing ore and hand picking emeralds
Emeralds
Swat, Pakistan. Mine entrance and talc schist host rock.
Limestone for cement
Carib Cement, Trinidad. Limestone quarry.
Cement kiln
Carib Cement, Trinidad. The raw material is a blend of high and low purity limestones.