Industrial Garnet; Hardest Mineral Ideal for Use as an Effective Abrasive in Various End-Use Industries

 
Industrial Garnet

Garnet has become a bona fide industrial commodity as it is a nearly perfect industrial abrasive. Industrial Garnet is mostly mined for industrial applications and very few numbers of garnet are flawless and pure to be mined as a gemstone. However, most of the garnets are crushed and used to make abrasives across various end-use industries. The first industrial use of garnet was as an abrasive. Industrial Garnet is a relatively hard mineral with a hardness that ranges between 6.5 and 7.5 on the Mohs Scale. That allows it to be used in many types of manufacturing.

Garnet as an industrial mineral. Domestic industries that consume garnet include aircraft and automotive manufacturers, electronic component manufacturers, ceramics and glass producers, filtration plants, the petroleum industry, glass polishing, textile stonewashing, shipbuilders, and wood-furniture-finishing operations. Besides its application in construction, garnet is used to manufacture automobile parts, repair ships, and in petrochemical plants. Its growing usage in oil and gas drilling is likely to contribute to the increase in demand for this mineral.

There are more than twenty garnet categories, called species, of which only 5 are commercially important as gems; such as pyrope, grossular (grossularite), spessartine, almandine (almandite), and andradite. A sixth, uvarovite, is a green garnet that usually occurs as crystals too small to cut. The rock-forming garnets are most common in metamorphic rocks. A few occur in igneous rocks, especially granites and granitic pegmatites. Garnets derived from these/such rocks occur sporadically in clastic sediments and sedimentary rocks.

Industrial Garnet is also used for abrasive blasting, water-jet-assisted cutting, water-filtration media, and other end uses, such as in sandpaper, nonslip coatings, & abrasive powders, among others. The majority of garnets are crushed and utilized as abrasives in a variety of industries, and thus, there is an increase in demand for industrial garnet worldwide. Most industrial-grade garnet mined in the U.S. are almandine (iron aluminum silicate), pyrope (magnesium aluminum silicate), and some andradite (calcium iron silicate).

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