2024-03-05
Mica-WHAT IS CAOLIN?
The name of kaolin clay comes from the French kaolin, in turn from the Chinese kao-ling shan 高岭山, this is the name of a mountain (shan 山 means mountain) in the province of Jianxi, towards the east of China, a This area is also known as Porcelain Land. Hence it also receives the English name "China clay". Although its name comes from this first location, there are obviously deposits of this white stone in many other parts of the world (eg in Africa it is called Kalaba).It is one of the most appreciated materials used in ceramics , luckily it is relatively abundant in the Earth's crust. You can imagine its age..., depending on the sources that talk about this material and its sites, various ages are considered, but the vast majority of them are no less than 100 million years old.