This book come about because of my poor memory : it is amazing how quickly and easly an experienced electron microscopist/mineralogist can identify minerals with an Energy Dispersive Spectrometer (EDS). It is also amazing how long it takes someone who is not good at mineralogy to search through a mineralogy text,trying to match the peaks on their unknown spectrum with the chemical formula of so…
Industrial minerals in Indonesia are widely distributed, although in some cases the deposits are not sufficiently abundant to be exploited in large scales. The Directorate of Mineral Resources is assigned to conduct mineral explorations and inventories, and has a long experience on these jobs. The mineral deposits will be discussed include bentonite, kaolin, natural zeolite, di…