Wil Shynkaruk on thu 13 feb 97
Joan,
As I have not noticed any replies to your Amblygonite question, I'll
tell you what I know.
About a year ago I was talking to the guys a Piedmont Pottery Supply and
they were carrying it.
Piedmont Pottery Supply Co.
818 Trollingwood-Hawfields Rd
Mebane, NC 27302
Tel 910-578-5100
Fax 910-578-0011
As you are from Canada, you might be interested that it is mined in
Canada, (in Ontario if my memory is correct. When I bought ours about
three or four years ago I could not find an American supplier, but was
able to bet it from a gypsum company in Canada. I can't remember the
name but they made a large variety of plaster products. They sold the
Amblygonite under the name Spodumene LM, the LM stands for low melt.
If you have trouble getting your hands on some, contact me and I will
try to dig up the gypsum company's name
Wil Shynkaruk
Utah State University
Joan Warren on mon 17 mar 97
Wil,
Thanks for the info on amblygonite. Looks like I can track some down locally.
I've had this great test tile staring me in the face since doing a color
developement course with Robin Hopper five years ago. It was Amblygonite 90%
and Custer 10%. Cone 10. Great over iron,copper and rutile.
Joan Warren.
sent via UUCP from: Raven Net, Salt Spring Island, BC, Canada
Joan Warren on thu 23 oct 97
Hi everyone,
Does anyone know where there is a supplier of Amblygonite or low melt Spodumene
, and are those two the same thing?
Thanks
Joan Warren
sent via UUCP from: Raven Net, Salt Spring Island, BC, Canada
Pat Sherwood on wed 29 oct 97
Joan Warren wrote:
>
> ----------------------------Original message----------------------------
> Hi everyone,
> Does anyone know where there is a supplier of Amblygonite or low melt Spodumen
> , and are those two the same thing?
> Thanks
> Joan Warren
> sent via UUCP from: Raven Net, Salt Spring Island, BC, Canada
---------------
Here is the message Wil Shynkaruk sent awhile back regarding
amblygonite:
As I have not noticed any replies to your Amblygonite question, I'll
tell you what I know.
About a year ago I was talking to the guys a Piedmont Pottery Supply and
they were carrying it.
Piedmont Pottery Supply Co.
818 Trollingwood-Hawfields Rd
Mebane, NC 27302
Tel 910-578-5100
Fax 910-578-0011
As you are from Canada, you might be interested that it is mined in
Canada, (in Ontario if my memory is correct. When I bought ours about
three or four years ago I could not find an American supplier, but was
able to bet it from a gypsum company in Canada. I can't remember the
name but they made a large variety of plaster products. They sold the
Amblygonite under the name Spodumene LM, the LM stands for low melt.
If you have trouble getting your hands on some, contact me and I will
try to dig up the gypsum company's name
Wil Shynkaruk
Utah State University
(Wil's e-mail address is: wilshyn@cc.usu.edu)
Nils Lou on thu 3 jun 99
I have been looking for a source for this mineral and have come up dry.
Anyone have a suggestion? It is a lithium-alumo-flouphosphate used as a
flux. Seems to have been available 20-25 years ago, but not now??!
Any help appreciated and will share my use of it with the list should I
find some. Nils
Ric Swenson on fri 4 jun 99
Nils Lou wrote:
>
> ----------------------------Original message----------------------------
> I have been looking for a source for this mineral and have come up dry.
> Anyone have a suggestion? It is a lithium-alumo-flouphosphate used as a
> flux. Seems to have been available 20-25 years ago, but not now??!
> Any help appreciated and will share my use of it with the list should I
> find some. Nils
of the five sources of lithium for glazes/bodies/flamewares, etc ....
Amblygonite is possibly the least mined.
I would contact the American Ceramic Society (OH) and seek info in their
yearly Source Book of suppliers of ceramic materials and process
equipment.
You might also try Hammill and Gillespie (NJ) .... Their web sites
available through Dogpile, Excite. GoTo, AltaVista and other search
engines. ...or... Maybe just type in 'amblygonite' ? I tried that and
got 47 sources of info on Lithium mineral related subjects....
try also
www.mineralminers.com
BTW....Carlton Ball included the question
Q. "What are the 5 sources for potters of Lithium for a glaze/body ?"
on our graduate comprehensive exams in 1976 at the Univ. of Puget
Sound, Tacoma, WA.
A. Spodumene, Lepidolite, Petalite, Amblygonite and (processed)
Lithium Carbonate.
good memories.....
HTH
Regards,
Ric Swenson, Bennington, VT
artsovt@sover.net
Curt Lacross on fri 4 jun 99
Hello,
I have found that university chemistry stores are exellent places to
search for those hard to find materials.
Regards,
Curt
June Perry on sat 5 jun 99
In my copious notes I noted (without source):
AMBLYGONITE - SUBSTITUTE 2 TO 1 LEPIDOLITE OR SPODUMENE.
Regards,
June
Dale A. Neese on sat 5 jun 99
Nils,
In his book on wood-firing, Jack Troy list a source af amblygonite or LM
(low-melt) spodumene as Industrial Gypsum Co., P.O. Box 7091, Milwaukee, WI
53207.
Dale Tex
Nils Lou on sun 6 jun 99
Dear Ric and all who have responded RE: amblygonite
First, thanks for taking the time to respond with suggestions of sources.
As a result I have found a singularly good source of minerals, some no
longer mined, at Watkins Minerals, Corp in Wichita Falls, TX. It seems to
be owned by a geologist named Jack Watkins who is very easy to talk to and
very knowledgeable. He has the pure, yellow lepidolite from South Dakota
that has been hard to get, for instance. price for the amblygonite is
$8/lb. As source of lithium amblygonite is a feldspar-like mineral
providing alumina, flurine and phosphate but acts more like a fluxing
agent. I am trying it in shino formulae looking for a variety of
interesting surfaces. If I come up with something interesting I will post
it for the shino nuts out there (like me).
Nils Lou
Oh, Jack Watkins can be reached at: 940-723-9260
Nils Lou on sun 6 jun 99
Thanks, June
As for a lithium source your substitution will likely work, but
neither lepidolite nor spodumene has significant fluophosphates which
amblgonite supplies. Nils
On Sat, 5 Jun 1999, June Perry wrote:
> ----------------------------Original message----------------------------
> In my copious notes I noted (without source):
>
> AMBLYGONITE - SUBSTITUTE 2 TO 1 LEPIDOLITE OR SPODUMENE.
>
> Regards,
> June
>
Nils Lou on sat 28 aug 99
This is addressed to the person on the list who sent me some amblygonite. I
have lost your name and address. Nils Lou
--On 27, Aug 1999, 2:14 PM +0000 Lana Reeves wrote:
> ----------------------------Original message----------------------------
> ------------------
> Just before I went on vacation, I had promised to send low fire glaze
> recipes to someone. I can't find your e-mail, and I don't remember who
> you are. If you still want them, e-mail me off list. Sorry for not
> following through.
>
> Lana in Somerville, MA
> kilnkat@rcn.com =^..^=
> "where cats & clay collide"
Gary Holt on sun 29 aug 99
Hi, Nils. I sent you the amblygonite, and I'm sending this both to your school
email address, and to the list, just to make sure you get it (I don't want to
miss any glaze information):
Gary Holt
1449 Fifth St.
Berkeley, CA
94710
Thanks....
Nils Lou wrote:
> ----------------------------Original message----------------------------
> This is addressed to the person on the list who sent me some amblygonite. I
> have lost your name and address. Nils Lou
Edouard Bastarache Inc. on sat 19 apr 08
Very interesting site on Amblygonite here :
http://64.233.169.104/search?q=3Dcache:IAqQIBKqGj0J:webmineral.com/data/A=
mblygonite.shtml+amblygonite+formula&hl=3Dfr&ct=3Dclnk&cd=3D3
Gis revido,
(A la revoyure)
Edouard Bastarache=20
Spertesperantisto
Sorel-Tracy
Quebec
http://www.pshcanada.com/Toxicology.htm
http://www.flickr.com/photos/30058682@N00/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/potier/20321056/
http://perso.orange.fr/smart2000/livres.htm
http://myblogsmesblogs.blogspot.com/
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