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Kaolin geologists locate high quality kaolin deposits using drilling surveys. Crude kaolin is transported to stockpiles where it is sorted. It is then crushed and dispersed in water to create a clay slurry. The slurry undergoes various purification processes like centrifuging, filtering, drying, and chemical or mechanical treatments to remove impurities and produce bright white kaolin powder or slurry.

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Kaolin Process Portrait Mode

Kaolin geologists locate high quality kaolin deposits using drilling surveys. Crude kaolin is transported to stockpiles where it is sorted. It is then crushed and dispersed in water to create a clay slurry. The slurry undergoes various purification processes like centrifuging, filtering, drying, and chemical or mechanical treatments to remove impurities and produce bright white kaolin powder or slurry.

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KaMin geologists locate the finest kaolin with the use of drilling surveys

Kaolin Processing
Kaolin Kaolin is crushed and fed into a blunger where
it is dispersed in water to produce a clay slurry
CENTRIFUGE

BLUNGER
Crusher

Crude kaolin is transported and Grit and other unwanted material is removed
sorted at nearby stockpiles through the use of a centrifuge or dragboxes

DragBox Chemical Separation

Underflow

Some KaMin operations use chemical separation


to remove additional impurities

Plant Storage Tanks


Filter mechanically dewaters slurry Spray Dryer brings water content down as low as 1%
and removes soluble salt impurities
LEACHING

RVD FILTER
SPRAY DRYER
Dust Collection

CENTRIFUGE
Leaching is a chemical process
that improves brightness

Particle Size Classification SILOS


EVAPORATOR
CALCINED
HYDROUS

Ozone oxidizes
OZONE organic impurities

Evaporator removes water to


desired specifications

ATTRITION MILL
Storage
Tanks
MAGNET

(Slurry)

Attrition Mills use glass beads and agitation Magnet removes iron and titanium
to delaminate stacks of kaolin into platelets dioxide stain from slurry
Tank Car Finished product is bagged or loaded
into bulk hoppers /trucks

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