Industrial Minerals


KaMin pressured by environmental group over creek spill

25 January 2012

by John Ollett

Savannah Riverkeep delivers 60-day notice of potential Georgia kaolin leak lawsuit

Keywords: KaMin, Savannah Riverkeep, kaolin, ceramics, clay

US kaolin producer KaMin LLC has received 60 days’ notice of a potential law suit from environmental group Savannah Riverkeep after a recent kaolin spill.

Earlier this month, a burst KaMin pipeline recently spilled 187,000 gallons (708,000 litres) of kaolin into Reedy Creek in the southern state of Georgia....