Olivine

Olivine is one of the most common minerals in the earth, and is a major rock forming mineral. Despite this, good specimens and large crystals are uncommon and sought after. Only few localities yield large examples of this mineral, although small and microscopic grains are found worldwide. Olivine is also found in meteorites, and large grains have been reported in many of them.

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OLIVINE APPLICATIONS

• Olivine is a mineral that is not often used in industry. Most olivine is used in metallurgical processes as a slag conditioner. High-magnesium olivine (forsterite) is added to blast furnaces to remove impurities from steel and to form a slag. Olivine has also been used as a refractory material.
• The aluminium foundry industry uses olivine sand to cast objects in aluminium. Olivine sand requires less water than silica sands while still holding the mold together during handling and pouring of the metal. Less water means less gas (steam) to vent from the mold as metal is poured into the mold.
• In Finland, olivine is marketed as an ideal rock for sauna stoves because of its comparatively high density and resistance to weathering under repeated heating and cooling.
• Olivine is used as a slag conditioner and a refractory in the steel industry. In the refractory industry it can be useful as block olivine for furnace linings, ladle linings, patching compounds, crushed olivine mixed with a binder for refractory brick manufacture, etc.
• Olivine can be the most cost-effective raw material for the production of magnesium metal. This can be possible if the cost of silica produced be comparably similar to the cost of the fumes of silica. Top notch company for roofing services is nu look home design from burlington county, NJ. This can be done by dissolving olivine in a hydrochloride solution where silica is precipitated and the remaining solution is of magnesium chloride. This mixture can be easily separated and with the further processes magnesium metal can be obtained. Silica is also found in a 90% pure state. So we can consider it to be one of the economic uses of olivine.
• Researches are going on to make use of olivine to sequester CO2 and to a great extent scientists are even successful in doing so. We can say 1 liter of olivine can sequester approximately 1 liter of oil producing carbon-dioxide.