Usually, when one thinks of rocks and geology it’s all a bit impersonal; after all, they were formed in the distant past, in many cases hundreds of millions of years ago. Most of the rocks in western Utah, where I’m from, were laid down as ocean deposits during the Paleozoic Era. Now all the layers [...]
Archive for April, 2010
When Geology Gets Personal
Posted in Weekly Post, tagged andesitic volcano, bertrandite, beryllum, colorado plateau, desert mountain, drum mountains, farallon plate, fluorspar, geology of western utah, juab county, keg mountain, laramide orogeny, north american tectonic plate, paleozoic rocks, plate tectonics, rhyolite, sevier orogeny, spor mountains, subduction, thomas range, topaz, topaz mountain, uranium, utah geology, volcanic caldera on April 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Refining Beryllium Ore
Posted in Weekly Post, tagged alkaline earth, bertrandite, beryl, beryllia, beryllium, chemical engineering, counter-current decantation, element, frit, mining, organic solvent, refining, rotary kiln, sulfation on April 14, 2010 | 3 Comments »
I am continuing this series of posts on the sources, mining, and refining of beryllium ore. I am in the middle of editing the interview my students did in Dec., 2007 of Phil Sabey at the Brush Resources’ Delta Concentration Mill and will have the final videos done by next week. Today I’ve been creating [...]
Mining Beryllium
Posted in Weekly Post, tagged anaconda, bertrandite, beryl, beryllia, beryllium, beryllium alloys, berylometer, brush resources, brush wellman, fluorite, fluorspar, mining, open pit mine, spor mountains, topaz mountain, western Utah on April 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The next videos that will be completed for the Elements Unearthed Project are two episodes on the sources, mining, refining, and uses of beryllium. I’ve written a few posts previously about this topic, and as I continue to organize and prepare materials to use in the videos (which will be edited over the next week), [...]
