Zircon is the natural form of Zirconium Silicate. Zircon is used to produce zirconium metal and zirconium dioxide. Zircon sand has a low expansion coefficient and is very stable at high temperatures. It is used as a refractory material in many foundry and casting applications. One of its most common uses is in the production of ceramics. � Zirconium is used in a variety of metal products that require a resistance to heat and corrosion. It is used to make high-performance alloys, specialty steel, lamp filaments, explosive primers, computer equipment and many electronics components.
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Zircon sand finds applications to be used in ceramics, refractory, foundry, electronics, zirconium compound, and other fields, it is also used in the preparation of nuclear reactor structural materials and control rod with zirconium and hafnium as irreplaceable raw minerals making it a strategic mineral.
It is used in ceramics as a major end-user, zircon sand is used as a glaze emulsion is ceramics such as glazed floor tiles, wall tiles, sanitary ware, and tableware.
Properties of Zircon Sand
Zircon is crystal and shows the structure of the quarter column. It usually occurs with ilmenite rutile, sillimanite, etc. in beach sand and is refined by water, electricity, and magnetic beneficiation process.
Pure zircon is a colorless and translucent crystal. It appears yellow, orange, red, and brown with different origins. Its hardness is 7.8, specific gravity 4.6-4.71, refractive index 1.93-2.01, and the melting point of 2550 C.
Zircon sand is a tetragonal system with a square pyramidal shape with a specific gravity of 4.6~4.71, a uniform Mohs hardness of 7-8, a refractive index of 1.93-2.01, and a melting point fluctuating within 2190~2420 °C depending on the impurities contained. It is a tetragonal system, often in the form of a well-developed cone-shaped small square cylinder, which is also irregularly granular. Sexually brittle, fractured shell-like. It is a high quality refractory material. It is symbiotic with ilmenite, rutile, monazite and xenotime in coastal sand, and is obtained after sorting by water separation, electric selection and magnetic separation.
