Ocmulgee Red Clay

Description: HIGH IRON CLAY

Oxide	Analysis	Formula
CaO	0.37%	0.03
K2O	1.29%	0.06
MgO	0.79%	0.09
Na2O	0.36%	0.03
TiO2	1.20%	0.07
Al2O3	21.80%	1.00
SiO2	53.90%	4.20
Fe2O3	6.40%	0.19
MnO	0.23%	0.02
LOI	13.70%	n/a
Oxide Weight		403.98
Formula Weight		468.11

Notes

A sandy, coarse, iron bearing sedimentary clay. Used in brick and pipe manufacture.
No longer available.
Sheffield-pottery.com replaces this with their own Sheffield clay claiming greater dependability.

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Typecodes	Clay Other Clays that are not kaolins, ball clays or bentonites. For example, stoneware clays are mixtures of all of the above plus quartz, feldspar, mica and other minerals. There are also many clays that have high plasticity like bentonite but are much different mineralogically.
Materials	Lizella Clay

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