高岭石是分布在地壳10米以下的最常见的一种矿物,是一种白色的水合铝硅酸盐粘土矿物的矿物学名称。世界高岭土精矿产品每年总计达2千万吨,价值超过10.0亿美元。高岭土之所以在工业上大量应用,主要是因为它所具有的如白度、粒度分布以及流变性等物理性能,陶瓷工业使用高岭土既依赖其物性,又取决于其化性。高岭土矿床的矿物学工业上使用的高岭土主要由高岭石或多水高岭石(埃洛石)或它们二者的混合物所组成,同时也含少量其它的矿物,如云母、 Kaolinite is the most common mineral distributed below the crust of 10 meters and is the mineral name of a white hydrated aluminosilicate clay mineral. The world’s kaolin concentrate products each year amount to 20 million tons, worth over 10.0 billion US dollars. The reason why kaolin is widely used in industry mainly because of its physical properties such as whiteness, particle size distribution and rheological properties, the use of kaolin ceramic industry depends not only on its physical properties, but also on its chemical nature. Mineralogy of the kaolin deposits The industrially used kaolins consist mainly of a mixture of kaolinite or halloysite (halloysite) or a mixture of both, together with minor amounts of other minerals such as mica,