Atlas of Raw Materials for the Glass and Ceramic Industries – Europe and the Mediterranean area. Deposits, Production, Reserves, and Uses.

The Atlas of Raw Materials for the Glass and Ceramic Industries takes into consideration 52 countries, across Europe and the Mediterranean area, and a broad spectrum of applications (sanitaryware and tableware, wall and floor tiles, clay bricks and roof tiles, vitrified drainage pipes, lightweight aggregates, refractory and technical ceramics, container and flat glass, fiberglass, stone wool, specialty glasses, glazes and frits). A wide range of raw materials is examined, including alumina, ball clay, barite, bauxite, borates, chromite, expanded clay, feldspar, kaolin, kyanite group minerals, magnesite, nepheline syenite, olivine, perlite, pyrophyllite, quartz sand, quartzous materials, red clay, refractory clay, soda ash, strontium minerals, talc, wollastonite, zeolites, and zirconium minerals. This Atlas reports, through more than 170 maps, the location of over 5,000 deposits of glass and ceramic raw materials. In addition, Country Profiles provide information about the state of mining activity (active or inactive mine, occurrence) and a brief description of the deposits (type, origin, geological formation and age). For each country, the average output and production trend over the last decade (2015-2024) as well as declared reserves are indicated. Moreover, Raw Material Profiles provide, for each mineral, cumulative production in the Euro-Mediterranean area and its percentage on global production; shares of ceramics, glasses, and refractories in the applications of each raw material; number and geographic distribution of active and inactive deposits. Maps and profiles are complemented by a comprehensive, relevant and up-to-date bibliography.