A South African coal-mining company is cleaning up its act by building cheap, eco-friendly housing using its industrial waste. For some years AngloAmerican – one of the world’s largest mining firms – ...

A new explanation of how gypsum forms may change the way we process this important building material, as well as allow us to interpret past water availability on other planets such as Mars. A new ...

BUA Gypsum Plaster Limited, a subsidiary of BUA Group, has officially commenced operations at its newly built 2,400 tonnes per day gypsum plaster manufacturing facility in Port Harcourt, Rivers State.

It is a ubiquitous mineral on the Earth's surface, and is also found on the surface of Mars. London: A new explanation of how gypsum is formed may change the way we process this important building ...

THE initial thickening of slurries of hemi-hydrate type gypsum plasters has been considered by many workers to be due to a colloidal mechanism, whereas the further hardening and final setting have ...

EXPERIMENTS carried out in this laboratory with some commercial gypsum plasters show that, between 0° and 50° C., temperature may exert a comparatively small effect upon the rate of hydration of the ...