The Possibility of Implementation of West Ukrainian Paleogene Glauconite–Quartz Sands in the Building Industry: A Case Study

Yuliia Trach, Victor Melnychuk, Oleksandr Stadnyk, Roman Trach, Filip Bujakowski, Agnieszka Kiersnowska, Gabriela Rutkowska, Leonid Skakun, Jacek Szer and Eugeniusz Koda ()
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Yuliia Trach: Institute of Civil Engineering, Warsaw University of Life Sciences–SGGW, 02-787 Warsaw, Poland
Victor Melnychuk: Institute of Water and Natural Resources Management, National University of Water and Environmental Engineering, 33028 Rivne, Ukraine
Oleksandr Stadnyk: Institute of Water and Natural Resources Management, National University of Water and Environmental Engineering, 33028 Rivne, Ukraine
Roman Trach: Institute of Civil Engineering, Warsaw University of Life Sciences–SGGW, 02-787 Warsaw, Poland
Filip Bujakowski: Institute of Environmental Engineering, Warsaw University of Life Sciences–SGGW, 02-787 Warsaw, Poland
Agnieszka Kiersnowska: Institute of Civil Engineering, Warsaw University of Life Sciences–SGGW, 02-787 Warsaw, Poland
Gabriela Rutkowska: Institute of Civil Engineering, Warsaw University of Life Sciences–SGGW, 02-787 Warsaw, Poland
Leonid Skakun: Department of Geology, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, 79000 Lviv, Ukraine
Jacek Szer: Department of Building Physics and Building Materials, Technical University of Lodz, 90-924 Lodz, Poland
Eugeniusz Koda: Institute of Civil Engineering, Warsaw University of Life Sciences–SGGW, 02-787 Warsaw, Poland

Sustainability, 2023, vol. 15, issue 2, 1-22

Abstract: The integrated use of minerals facilitates the reduction in the impact of mining on the environment. Many industries are in need of quartz sand in huge quantities. Quality requirements for quartz sand often refer to a high percentage of SiO 2 and low content of Fe 2 O 3 , as well as the absence of clay impurities. The extraction of conditioned quartz sands and their close geographic location to consumers are economically profitable. Due to their wide distribution in Ukraine and their subsurface occurrence, glauconite-bearing Paleogene sands attract special attention. It has been experimentally confirmed that such sands are capable of dry magnetic separation. As a result of dry magnetic separation, three magnetic fractions and a nonmagnetic fraction were isolated. Glauconite was the dominant mineral in the magnetic fraction at 0.8 Tl. Their content was 5.1% and 2.8% in sand, respectively. The nonmagnetic fractions obtained from two studied samples were at 80.4 and 80.7%, respectively. XRF analyses showed that in each nonmagnetic fraction the content of SiO 2 is at 96.9 wt.% and 93.7 wt.%, and Fe 2 O 3 at 0.26 wt.% and 0.87 wt.%, respectively. In XRD, the nonmagnetic fractions contained 94.8% and 93.1% of sand, and 0.8% and 1.9% of glauconite, respectively. The values of the fineness moduli for the nonmagnetic fractions were 1.10 and 1.85. The size classes of quartz sands were 0.63 + 0 mm and −0.8 + 0 mm. Compared with current Ukrainian standards, the nonmagnetic fractions can be used in the building industry as well as in the manufacturing of glass, with the addition of a certain amount of glass from recycling.

Keywords: mining waste; environmental; quartz sand; clay; construction (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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