Mahalaxmi Minerals

Jaipur Road, Ajmer, Rajasthan

At the time of boring for Pile, the sides of the bore hole are subjected to numerous external forces and pressure like active earth pressure, hydrostatic pressure, pore pressure, etc due to underground water. As a result the side of the bore become unstable and may collapse if the soil layers remain weak.

Due to its thixotropic property, bentonite is used as a supporting fluid to counter the external pressures and stabilize the sides of the bore hole.

Mahalaxmi Minerals Piling Grade Bentonite is a sodium based bentonite of exceptional purity procured from ores with a high composition of montmorollinite.

The main features of Mahalaxmi Minerals Piling Grade Bentonite are listed below:

• Large Surface Area
• Commendable Gelling Strength
• Excellent plasticity and lubricity
• Impermeability
• Significantly low filter loss
• Environmentally Acceptable
• Excellent packaging enhancing shelf life of the product
• Available in quantities depending on customer requirements.

Bentonite is used as a bonding material in the preparation of moulding sand for the production of cast iron, steel, and non-ferrous casting. The unique properties of bentonite yield green sand moulds with good flowability, compactability, and thermal stability for the production of high quality castings.

Mahalaxmi Minerals Foundry Grade Bentonite is a sodium based bentonite of high purity mined and processed especially for foundry from ores with a high compositions of montmorollinite.

The main features of Mahalaxmi Minerals Foundry Grade Bentonite are listed below:

• Excellent gelling which gives high strength in less mulling time.
• Acts as a quick bonding element.
• Great thermal stability with generation of lesser dead clay.
• Active clay maintaining due to high montmorillonite values.
• Environmentally Acceptable.
• Excellent packaging enhancing shelf life of the product.
• Available in quantities depending on customer requirements.

Bentonite slurries are used in the construction of special foundations for digging diaphragm walls and bored piles. Bentonite is used for self-hardening mixtures employed to build cut off walls, grouting mortars, and grouting. Finally bentonite waterproofing properties are best exploited in environmental engineering, to seal off soil infiltrations, and line the base of land-fills.

Bentonite is also used in civil engineering applications such as tunneling, horizontal directional drilling (HDD) and pipe jacking.

MM Construction Grade Bentonite is a sodium based bentonite procured from ores with a high composition of montmorollinite. Horizontal Directional Drilling (HDD) is one of the major drilling areas that MM seeks to serve.

The main features of MM Construction Grade Bentonite are listed below:

• Superior Gel Strengths
• Filter cake development coupled with filtration control with a lower resultant viscosity enabling successful horizontal bore
• Better maintenance of flow and effective removal of solids
• Environmentally Acceptable
• Excellent packaging enhancing shelf life of the product
• Available in quantities depending on customer requirements

Suspensions of bentonite in water are widely used across industries. The largest and best known use of bentonite suspension is as drilling mud. Due to its rheological properties and thixotropy of aqueous suspensions, bentonite is used as a mud constituent for oil and water well drilling. Its functions are mainly to stabilise the borehole, seal the borehole walls, and remove drill cuttings. Bentonite muds are thus employed for oil and water well drilling, tunnel, and microtunnel drilling.

Mahalaxmi Minerals Drilling Grade Bentonite is a sodium based bentonite of high purity mined and processed especially for drilling from ores with a high compositions of montmorollinite.

The main features of Mahalaxmi Minerals Drilling Grade Bentonite are listed below:

• conserves thixotopic properties of the mineral when met with brine and high temperature in deep drilling
• Generates high barrel yield
• Withstands formation pressure
• Impermeability
• Environmentally Acceptable
• Excellent packaging enhancing shelf life of the product
• Available in quantities depending on customer requirements