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Home Dictionary Name: clayPipe clay
A plastic unctuous clay of a grayish white color used in making tobacco pipes and various kinds of earthenware in scouring cloth and in cleansing soldiers equipments...
Clayey
Consisting of clay abounding with clay partaking of clay like clay...
Kaolin
A very pure white clay ordinarily in the form of an impalpable powder and used to form the paste of porcelain China clay porcelain clay It is chiefly derived from the decomposition of common feldspar...
Portland cement
A cement having the color of the Portland stone of England made by calcining an artificial mixture of carbonate of lime and clay or sometimes certain natural limestones or chalky clays It contains a large proportion of clay and hardens under water...
Minerals
Minerals, means all substances which can be obtained from the earth by mining, digging, drilling, dredging, hydraulicking, quarrying or by any other operation and includes mineral oils. [Mines Act, 1952, s. 2(jj)]This term may include all substances of commercial value which can be got from beneath the earth, either by mining or quarrying, except common clay [Glasgow v. Farie, (1888) 13 App Cas 657], or sandstone (N.B. Ry. v. Budhill Coal and Sandstone Co., 1910 AC 116); but china clay is a mineral (G.W. Ry. v. Carpalla China Clay Co., 1910 AC 83). See also Waring v. Foden, (1932) 1 Ch 276.By the (English) Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 205 (1) (ix.), mines and minerals include any strata or seam of minerals or substances in or under any land and the powers of working and getting the same, but not an undivided share thereof.Minerals would include minor minerals unless minor minerals are expressly excluded or the context otherwise requires, D.K. Trivedi & Sons v. State of Gujarat, AIR 19...
Minor mineral
Minor mineral, the expression 'minor mineral' as defined in s. 3(e) includes 'ordinary clay' and 'ordinary sand'. If the expression 'minor mineral' as defined in s. 3(e) of the Act includes 'ordinary clay' and 'ordinary sand', there is no reason why earth used for the purpose of making bricks should not be comprehended with in the meaning of the word 'any other mineral' which may be declared as a 'minor mineral' by the Government. The word 'mineral' is not a term of art. It is a word of common parlance, capable of a multiplicity of meanings depending upon the context, Banarsi Dass Chadha v. Lt. Governor, AIR 1978 SC 1587 (1588): (1978) 4 SCC 11. [Mines and Minerals (Regulation and Development) Act, 1957 (67 of 1957), s. 3(e)]Means building stones, gravel, ordinary clay, ordinary sand other than sand used for prescribed purposes, and any other mineral which the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, declare to be a minor mineral. [Mines and Minerals (Developmen...
Ocher
A impure earthy ore of iron or a ferruginous clay usually red hematite or yellow limonite used as a pigment in making paints etc The name is also applied to clays of other colors...
Prian
A fine white somewhat friable clay also the ore contained in a mixture of clay and pebbles...
Pug
Tempered clay clay moistened and worked so as to be plastic...
Slime
Slime, is the term used in milling practice to describe a suspension, in water of the fully divided fraction of pulverized ore; also solid, whether suspended or after setting out to drying, Handbook of Mineral Dressing (at p. 1504); see also National Mineral Development Corpn. Ltd. v. State of Madhya Pradesh, (2004) 6 SCC 281.Means a material of extremely fine-particle size encountered in ore treatment (ASG Gloss), National Mineral Development Corpn. Ltd. v. State of Madhya Pradesh, (2004) 6 SCC 281.Means a mudlike substance formed of ore in an almost impalpable powder, mixed with water: usually plural (Standard 1964) National Mineral Development Corpn. Ltd. v. State of Madhya Pradesh, (2004) 6 SCC 281.Means a product of wet grinding containing valuable ore in particles so fine, as to be carried in suspension by water; chiefly used in the plural (Webster 3d); see also National Mineral Development Corpn. Ltd. v. State of Madhya Pradesh, (2004) 6 SCC 281.Means in metallurgy, ore reduced ...
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