Kimberlite tailings doubtful at best that it could ever be used as a construction material. In fact kimberlite exposed to water or air will alter to serpentine soil with very fine particles extremely fast. Some mines use this characteristic and stockpile kimberlite ore in outside pits and after a couple of years it can then be processed without any crushing hence better preserving the diamonds it contains. New process is described for the preparation of free flowing hydrated amorphous silica from kimberlite tailing. The process comprises treating of kimberlite with acid, further reacting it with alkali solution to obtain soluble metal silicate
Charlotte Sometimes (novel) Charlotte Sometimes (novel) Charlotte Sometimes is a children's novel by the English writer Penelope Farmer, published in 1969 by Chatto & Windus in the UK, and by Harcourt in the United States. It is the third and best known of three books featuring the Makepeace sisters, Charlotte and Emma. The three are sometimes known as the "Aviary Hall" books. "Charlotte Sometimes" inspired the song of the same name by the English rock band, The Cure. The story centres on a girl called Charlotte, who not long after starting at a boarding school, finds she has travelled mysteriously back more than