Qualities and Utilization of Fluorspar

Fluorspar is utilized, depending upon quality, in the manufacture of aluminum, bricks, cement, glass, glass fibers, enamel and in the metal working industry (foundries). Other applications consume only small quantities. 

65-85 10 t/a, based on hydrogen fluoride, or 126-165 10 t/a, based on calcium fluoride, of this quality were consumed in the USA in 1991. 

Hexafluorosilicic acid, a little used source of fluorine 

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