http://www.northernconagg.com/prod_kaolin.htm

[Lee]

I wonder if this was Minnesota Clay's kaolin source? Says it is
mostly used to make concrete.

http://www.northernconagg.com/prod_kaolin.htm

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[Louis Katz]

Looking for kaolin?
try here:
http://www.mineralmundi.com/clay%20-%20kaolin.htm
There is lots of innaccuracy, but its a great resource.

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[Lee]

On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 8:32 AM, Louis Katz <loui...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Looking for kaolin?
> try here:
> http://www.mineralmundi.com/clay%20-%20kaolin.htm
> There is lots of innaccuracy, but its a great resource.

Only two listed in Minnesota there. I am familiar with the brick
clay pit, but thought it was red brick clay. The kaolin I am looking
for was sold right in town.

[Neon-Cat]

Why not call and ask them for a sample and chat them up about the business and its history? People will share surprising amounts of info if they have an interested person asking.
So many of the resources down here in Texas, including those we'd have a field day with, are used for odd things, road or construction fill, have been abandoned, or just never got developed due to environmental regulations and other economic reasons.

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> Subject: *ClayCraft* http://www.northernconagg.com/prod_kaolin.htm
> To: "ClayCraft" <Clay...@googlegroups.com>
> Date: Wednesday, November 25, 2009, 8:19 AM

[Lee]

I just remembered that Redwing Pottery was using the indigenous kaolin
and just wrote them to find the producer. The clay body I was
testing for Minnesota Clay reminded me of the Bizen clay I have used.
Very high iron content.

Lee

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[Neon-Cat]

I just got a book on American stoneware potteries, will pay more attention to source materials, your state is mentioned a lot. Lee, what was with all the pigs every big pottery across the US seemed to make? Just little pigs amid their functional ware -- not even as piggy banks.

Marian

[Randall Moody]

Holy Smokes! Look at all of the Georgia listings! I need to get out more!

Randall in Atlanta

[Des & Jan Howard]

Marian
In Oz as well. Snow-white potash feldspar used for
toothpaste, pyrophyllite used as military footpowder,
local plastic kaolin in digestives & anti-diarrhoeals.
Des

Neon-Cat wrote:
> So many of the resources down here in Texas,
> including those we'd have a field day with,
> are used for odd things, road or construction fill,
> have been abandoned, or just never got developed
> due to environmental regulations and other economic reasons.

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Lue Pottery
Lue NSW
Australia
2850

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www.luepottery.hwy.com.au
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