Stuart Altmann on mon 13 oct 97
Bonnie:
Kaolin deposits, often several feet thick, are common in Georgia. When I
lived there, a friend had a fulltime job testing kaolin that was exposed by
highway graders making road cuts. Farmers were compensated for lost land
if a road went through their property, but if kaolin was found, they were
paid additional compensation, often quite considerable, for the lost
mineral rights. Our farm in central West Virginia has several surface
exposures of beds of a plastic, whitish clay, stained to varying degrees by
ochre. It may be primarily kaolin.
Stuart Altmann
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