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- Volume 21
- Issue 1
- Jan 1977
- Pages 18-24
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Forming Fibres from Basalt Rock
NEW APPLICATION FOR A WELL-ESTABLISHED PROCESS
- G. L. Sheldon
- Platinum Metals Rev.,
- 1977,
- 21,
- (1),
- 18
Article Synopsis
Basalt, a rock which results when molten lava from deep in the earth's crust rises up and cools sufficiently to solidify is found in many parts of the world. In some notable instances it covers areas of many thousands of square miles. This paper describes work carried out to produce commercially useful fibre from the basalt which occurs as an enormous outcrop in Idaho, Oregon and Washington in the United States of America.
