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Clays and Clay Minerals; December 2007; v. 55; no. 6; p. 644-645
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Book Review

Applied Clay Mineralogy. Occurrences, processing and application of kaolins, bentonite, palygorskite-sepiolite, and common clays.

Haydn H. Murray. Developments in Clay Science, volume 2, Elsevier Science, Amsterdam, 2007, 180 + viii pp. ISBN-13: 978-0-444-51701-2, ISBN-10: 0-444-51701-4. Price: USD $145, EUR {euro}120, GBP £83.

Ian Wilson

Withielgoose Farmhouse, Withel, Bodmin, Cornwall PL30 5NW, UK

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Any article or book written by Professor Haydn Murray is to be welcomed, as he is one of the leading figures in the Industrial Minerals field, particularly with respect to various types of clays. Following a distinguished career in industry he became Professor in the Department of Geological Science in Indiana University in the USA and in his retirement continues to work actively in the field as a consultant. Many of his former PhD students are now in senior positions in industry with some of the major kaolin and clay companies both in the USA and overseas.

His book covers a wide range of topics and is just 145 pages of text and figures with 45 pages of Appendices and an Index.

The book is clearly aimed as an introduction to clay mineralogy and the occurrences, processing and applications of various clay minerals. For specialists in the field it will be a useful reference point for looking up locations of clay minerals they are not so familiar with. Specialists in particular clay minerals, e.g. kaolin, will view the book as a general summary of world occurrences but for more detail on particular deposits will need to carry out further reading and research.

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