Abstract:
Ebian county is rich in basalt mineral resources, but there is no mine to exploit and utilize fiber basalt. The evaluation of fiber basalt is carried out from three aspects: ore texture, chemical composition and evaluation parameters of basalt wire drawing performance. The results show that the dense massive basalts and almond-basalts mostly belong to the transitional rocks between tholeiitic series and alkaline series, while the vitrobasalt are all alkaline series in the study area. The chemical composition of tholeiitic series ores is characterized by high SiO
2 content, low alkali metal oxides (K
2O+Na
2O) and TiO
2 content, and high FeO/MgO ratio. The dense massive basalt is suitable for continuous basalt fiber production in the area. Due to the secondary minerals such as quartz and calcite contained in the almond of almond-basalt and high volcanic glass composition, almond structure and high acidity coefficient in vitrobasalt, they are all unfavorable to be used as raw material to produce basalt fiber. The basalt mineral resources are huge in the study area, with the potential for the fiber-applied basalts resource reserves, and it is recommended to utilizing the basalt mineral resources by comprehensive development.