Resumen de Kaolin's opportunity

Industrial Minerals

• The name 'kaolin' is derived from the village of Gaoling in Jiangxi province, China, where the white clay was mined. The nearby Jingdezhen potteries used the kaolin to create their fine white porcelain. Europeans identified the composition of Chinese porcelain in the 18th Century and deposits of kaolin were sought in Europe. This led to the discovery of the kaolin deposits in Cornwall, southwest England, which were named china clay.

  KaMin - shortly after the Imerys acquisition of BASF's PHK business, KaMin acquired the ultrafine paper hydrous kaolin (UPHK) business. The UPHK business was part of the recently acquired paper hydrous kaolin (PHK) business from BASF. Imerys will retain all of the non-UPHK business from the BASF transaction. The transaction for acquiring UPHK did not involve any production assets. KaMin will have a large share of the ultrafine clay market with its operation in Brazil (CADAM) and the plant at Wrens, Georgia.

  Arcilla Mining & Land Co. was started in 1992 in Georgia and much of its production was used as a feed for Carbo Ceramics for proppants. The success of the Georgia mining work led to expansion of the company into kaolin-rich areas of South Carolina. In 2005, Arcilla moved equipment into Arkansas for mining of bauxite. Arcilla supplies clay to three Carbo plants in Alabama and Georgia. Around 2012 Arcilla was mining 3.17m tonnes of kaolin and 272,155 tonnes of bauxite from all their deposits in the US.