Newly verified occurrences of industrial minerals in Belize

Abstract

Modern society is characterised by functional infrastructure and sufficient number and variety of materials in the form of various technical goods. All these achievements of civilisation are not only the result of human skills, but their material principles are based on industrial minerals. This group of materials includes a wide range of the natural raw materials which are used in many industries. This includes the raw materials for the manufacture of glass, ceramics or fillers. For other raw materials, new applications are just being developed. These materials are very desirable in the market. Not only are their supplies endless, but they occur very unevenly in the natural deposits and unlike most metals can't be recycled. Due to low production costs in the production of this type of the raw materials, the competition in the global market has significantly increased during recent years. With this growing trend has significantly increased the interest in these materials in developing countries, which is precisely the Central American country of Belize. In the context of the cooperation, project has been verified several economically interesting sources such as ceramic clay, bentonite, feldspar and carbonate materials.