{"id":2793,"date":"2026-04-02T11:34:40","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T06:04:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beachmineral.com\/?p=2793"},"modified":"2026-04-02T11:34:40","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T06:04:40","slug":"beach-mineral-histroy-in-india-part-2-uses-of-beach-minerals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beachmineral.com\/ta\/beach-mineral-histroy-in-india-part-2-uses-of-beach-minerals\/","title":{"rendered":"Beach Mineral Histroy in India \u2013 Part-2 – Uses of Beach Minerals"},"content":{"rendered":"

The uses of beach minerals are given below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Sl.No.<\/strong><\/td>\nMineral<\/strong><\/td>\nUses<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1.<\/td>\nIlmenite and Leucoxene<\/td>\nManufacture of Titanium di-oxide (pigment for paint)<\/p>\n

Welding electrodes<\/p>\n

Processing of graded steel<\/p>\n

Manufacture of high quality photo grey sun glasses<\/p>\n

Manufacture of titanium metal<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

2.<\/td>\nRutile<\/td>\nIngredient in welding rod flux<\/p>\n

Feed stock for titanium di-oxide pigment<\/p>\n

Colouring agent in ceramic and glass products<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

3.<\/td>\nZircon<\/td>\nProduction of opacifiers, glazes and frits\u00a0 (for making ceramic tiles)<\/p>\n

Floor and decorative tiles<\/p>\n

Zirconium chemicals<\/p>\n

Zirconium metals for various uses<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

4.<\/td>\nSillimanite<\/td>\nRefractory industry<\/p>\n

Foundry<\/p>\n

Precision investment casting<\/p>\n

Electrical porcelain<\/p>\n

Sanitary ware<\/p>\n

Abrasives<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

5.<\/td>\nGarnet<\/td>\nSand blasting<\/p>\n

Water jet cutting<\/p>\n

Water filtration<\/p>\n

Abrasive paper and cloths<\/p>\n

Micronised garnet for polishing<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

6.<\/td>\nMonazite<\/td>\nExtraction of Rare Earths (used in making magnets, glass, LEDs, batteries etc.,)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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The uses of beach minerals are given below. Sl.No. Mineral Uses 1. Ilmenite and Leucoxene Manufacture of Titanium di-oxide (pigment for paint) Welding electrodes Processing of graded steel Manufacture of high quality photo grey sun glasses Manufacture of titanium metal 2. Rutile Ingredient in welding rod flux Feed stock for titanium di-oxide pigment Colouring agent … Continue reading “Beach Mineral Histroy in India \u2013 Part-2 – Uses of Beach Minerals”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.5","language":"ta","enabled_languages":["en","ta"],"languages":{"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"ta":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false}}},"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beachmineral.com\/ta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beachmineral.com\/ta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beachmineral.com\/ta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beachmineral.com\/ta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beachmineral.com\/ta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2793"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/beachmineral.com\/ta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2797,"href":"https:\/\/beachmineral.com\/ta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2793\/revisions\/2797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beachmineral.com\/ta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beachmineral.com\/ta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beachmineral.com\/ta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}