Carbonate filler resources of the Bjelopavlići area, Montenegro

Abstract

Carbonate filler is an important mineral commodity, with rather diverse industrial applications. The Bjelopavlići area in Montenegro is rich in chemically pure limestone, which was preliminary explored in the field, and further on mineralogical, petrographic, geochemical and technological properties were studied. The obtained results have proven the high quality of limestone from the studied deposits, as it can be used for paints&varnishes, rubber&plastics, metallurgy, foundry, sugar, fertilizers and animal feed industry. Several deposits have very pure limestone, that can be also used for paper, glass, pharmacy and soil neutralisation. The potential resources of high quality limestone are around 23 million tons. [Projekat Ministarstva nauke Republike Srbije, br. OI176016]

Keywords

• limestone
• filler
• geochemistry
• application
• resources