Unlike other commodities, talc and pyrophyllite are not recycled. From Wordnik.com. [Talc] Reference
Chinese “soapstone” carvings are carved from fine-grained pyrophyllite. From Wordnik.com. [Talc] Reference
All the pyrophyllite produced in the United States is mined in North Carolina. From Wordnik.com. [Talc] Reference
The United States produces enough talc and pyrophyllite to meet its annual needs. From Wordnik.com. [Talc] Reference
Despite the volume of talc/pyrophyllite produced domestically, some is imported from China, Canada, Japan, and other countries. From Wordnik.com. [Talc] Reference
The available reserves of talc are sufficient for many decades to come so such substitutions are not necessary, though they may be cost-effective depending on the relative costs of talc, mica, pyrophyllite and kaolin. From Wordnik.com. [Talc] Reference
There are numerous talc and pyrophyllite resources worldwide. From Wordnik.com. [Featured Articles - Encyclopedia of Earth] Reference
Both talc and pyrophyllite have perfect cleavage in one direction. From Wordnik.com. [Featured Articles - Encyclopedia of Earth] Reference
Chinese "soapstone" carvings are carved from fine-grained pyrophyllite. From Wordnik.com. [Featured Articles - Encyclopedia of Earth] Reference
Two different minerals with similar physical properties are talc and pyrophyllite. From Wordnik.com. [Featured Articles - Encyclopedia of Earth] Reference
Clays and pyrophyllite can be used in place of talc in the manufacture of ceramics. From Wordnik.com. [Featured Articles - Encyclopedia of Earth] Reference
Both are very soft: talc is the softest mineral on the Mohs 'hardness scale at 1, and pyrophyllite is 1 to 2. From Wordnik.com. [Featured Articles - Encyclopedia of Earth] Reference
Ground pyrophyllite is used in the production of ceramics, heat-resistant products called fractories, and paint. From Wordnik.com. [Featured Articles - Encyclopedia of Earth] Reference
One supplier of a brand called Sacred Clay (a pyrophyllite clay rich in many trace minerals) is Vitality Herbs and. From Wordnik.com. [STLtoday.com Top News Headlines] Reference
Other less valuable minerals, native or foreign, are also used, among others, compact varieties of talc or soap-stone and of pyrophyllite. From Wordnik.com. [The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II] Reference
Agalmatolite -- pyrophyllite (silicate of alumina) sometimes erroneously classed with talc (which is a silicate of magnesia) is found in deposits of considerable magnitude in Chatham, Moore and Orange counties, where, indeed, it occurs as a white or greenish slate or schistose rock, which can be mined easily and cheaply. From Wordnik.com. [North Carolina and its Resources.] Reference
Moh's scale and humidity less than 6 percent such as kaolin, limestone, calcite, marble, talcum, barite, gypsum, dolomite, bentonite mud, mica, pyrophyllite, sepiolite, diatomite, graphite, alunite, fluorite, potassium feldspar, phosphorite, pigment and so on. From Wordnik.com. [All Kinds of Rocks, Fossils & Minerals] Reference
Several decades worth of mining, the constant peregrinations of nine-tonne vehicles, and the relentless extraction of iron ore, pyrophyllite, quartzite, manganese, dolomite, chromite, pyroxenite and limestone have torn up the earth, soaked up the rivers, and have filled the air with a thick, reddish dust that never quite seems to settle. From Wordnik.com. [Kafila] Reference
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