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CCa-2 (50 grm/unit) Ripidolite (chlorite), FlagstaffHill, ElDorado County, California, USA
RAr-1 (50 grm/unit) Rectorite (regular-mixedlayer),Garland County,Arkansas, USA. Pure flakes with some minute euhedral quartz crystals.
SYnH-1 (50 grm/unit) Optigel SH, Synthetic hectorite,Sud-Chemie Rheologicals (United Catalysts Inc.).
SYnL-1 (50 grm/unit) Laponite RD, Synthetic layered silicate, Southern Clay Products Inc.
SCa-3 (50 grm/unit) Montmorillonite ("Otay"), Otay SanDiego County, California. USA
SAz-2 (50 grm/unit) Ca-Montmorillonite ("Cheto") in natural chunk form, Apache County, Arizona, USA
IMt-1 or IMt-2 (50 grm/unit) Illite, Silver Hill, Mont.(Cambrian shale) 1 Md. Char. by Hower, et al., Amer. Min. 51, p.825-854,1966)
ISCz-1 (50 grm/unit) Illite-smectite mixed layer (70/30 ordered),Czechoslovakia.
NAu-1 (50 grm/unit) Nontronite, green color, Al-enriched, From Uley Mine, South Australia, Collected and supplied by John Keeling, Mark Raven, and Will Gates, CSIRO.
NAu-2 (50 grm/unit) Nontronite, brown color, Al-poor,contains tetrahedral Fe, From Uley Mine, South Australia, Collected and supplied by John Keeling, Mark Raven, and Will Gates, CSIRO.
NG-1 (10 grm/unit) Nontronite, Hohen Hagen, Germany. Nontronite cemented sand (15-20% nontronite), easily separated by wet sedimentation (charact. by Schneiderhoehn, Tschermaks Min. u. Pet. Mitt.10, p.385-399,1965)
SepSp-1 (50 grm/unit) Sepiolite, Valdemore, Spain (Miocene age,contains minor calcite)
SBId-1 (50 grm/unit) Beidellite, Idaho, USA
CAr-1 (10 grm/unit) Cookeite, Arkansas, USA (Cookeite flakes scattered on surface of rock chips)
The following special clays are no longer available:
SWa-1 (50 grm/unit) Ferruginous Smectite, Grant County,Washington,USA
VTx-1 (50 grm/unit) Vermiculite ("Llano"), Llano, Texas, USA. A mixture of magnesite, phlogopite and vermiculite. The vermiculite can be separated with hand picking.
IWi-1 (50 grm/unit) Illite, Waukesha,Wisconsin, USA (Silurian),
ISMt-1 (50 grm/unit) Illite-smectite mixed layer (60/40 ordered),Mancos shale Cretaceous.
CorWa-1 (50 grm/unit) Corrensite, Pachwook, WA. (Ohanapecosh form.). (Altered Eocene tuff, containing 25-50% corrensite; quartz and plagioclase impurities separable by wet sedimentation)
SapCa-2 (50 grm/unit) Saponite, Ballarat, CA. (contains up to 3%diopside, separable by wet sedimentation
SepNev-1 (50 grm/unit) Sepiolite, Two Crows, Nevada (pub.ref.:Clays & Clay Minerals, v.26, p.58-64, 1978)
SBCa-1 (50 grm/unit) Beidellite, California, USA
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