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1) Near which towns are the ball clay quarries?

2) The ball clay industry is now highly mechanised and very successful.

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3) Purbeck ball clay is composed of kaolinite, mica and quartz.

4) Purbeck ball clay is quarried for use in the production of fine pottery.



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5) The Stover canal reverted to shipping ball clay–which only really stopped by 1939.

6) ball clay An extremely plastic, fine grained sedimentary clay, which may contain some organic matter.

7) Just 2 mi northwest of Newton Abbot lie the large ball clay workings of the Bovey basin.

8) E. In Devon, ball clay is quarried from open pits and gently sloping shafts, or adits.

9) ball clay, which English China clays mines in several pads of Britain, is also extracted from secondary deposits.

10) The pit was dug in the early seventeenth century, when Purbeck ball clay was used for making fine ceramic products.

11) Other raw materials can include feldspar, ball clay, glass, bone ash, steatite, quartz, petuntse and alabaster.

12) At Torrington the line met the Torrington and Marland Railway, a narrow gauge line opened in 1880 to carry ball clay.

13) It is called ball clay because it was cut in cubes, about a spade size, and these were called 'balls' of clay!

14) Quarrying still takes place in Purbeck, and both Purbeck ball clay and Purbeck Marble is now transported from the area by road.



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15) Purbeck ball clay has also played a part in the history of the island, although the principal ball clay workings were in the area between Corfe Castle and Wareham.

16) Purbeck ball clay has also played a part in the history of the island, although the principal ball clay workings were in the area between Corfe Castle and Wareham.

17) To the north of the ridge are several areas of heathland, which in many places have been excavated for Purbeck ball Clay.

18) The ball clay workings on the Isle of Purbeck have left behind a legacy of numerous small lakes, the most notable of which is the Blue Pool.

19) As the rural manufacturing and shipping importance of the area declined, the significance of Crediton, Fremington and Bideford waned also; ball clay however gained importance at Torrington.

20) To the north and east of the county, much finer sands and gravels are found, including ball clay which was widely mined on the heaths around Wareham.

21) The track from Furzebrook to the main line junction at Worgret remained in use for ball clay traffic, later also serving the oilfield at Wytch Farm.

22) At Furzebrook, the railway crossed the mineral tramway belonging to Pike Brothers, known as the Furzebrook Railway; the tramway was used for the transport of ball clay.

23) The main workings are on the eastern outcrop of the deposits at Kingsteignton, which can lay claim to being the centre of Britain's ball clay industry.

24) The opening of the Stover Canal by James Templer in 1792 provided a boost to the port due to the ease with which ball clay could be transported from the mines north of Newton Abbot.

25) His father's wealth obtained from selling Purbeck ball clay enabled Lodge to attend physics lectures in London and attend the local Wedgwood Institute.

26) Currently ball clay is exported from Bideford to Castellón, Spain and also Naantali, Finland; also wood has been exported to Wismar, Germany.

27) This clay has many of the characteristics between fire clay and ball clay, having finer grain, like ball clay but is more heat resistant like fire clays.

28) This clay has many of the characteristics between fire clay and ball clay, having finer grain, like ball clay but is more heat resistant like fire clays.

29) ball clay and the Stover Canal

30) "The potters' field: a history of the South Devon ball clay industry" (1974)

31) In 1999, ball clay was not accepted for use as an ingredient by the Association of American Control Officials, Inc.

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33) However, Britain is also a major producer of a number of other industrial minerals including barytes, ball clay, china clay, fluorspar, fuller's earth, gypsum, potash, salt and silica sand.



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