Tumbling in 6 inch Schedule 40 PVC Barrels

Well the samples are in the lab, sent them to an indepenent lab instead of doing them in house. I asked if they could give me a chemical or mineral break down and the owner said they only do the sand, silt and clay and don't differenciate between mineral types. So with them its just a sizing or percentage thing. It is hard to believe that the performance on a baseball field is affected just as much by mineralization as percentage, or expanding vs. non expanding.

Sand silt and clay works Billy. Because this area is all about granite meaning felspar and quartz. Plenty of iron to add color.
Figure on weathered felspar(kaolin) will be the clay.

Cannot see much variation in the minerals. This area is boring as hell geologically. Granite granite and more granite. And crystalline quartz of a low grade.

Hope it works out to be ready to use with out any blending.

I will make a guess that the clay from behind the house is very similar to the clay from the pit 2 miles up the road.
If so, it may be telling that this Georgia clay is constant over a large area. Pretty sure this is the case.

Finding clay in this area is easy. Many land owners are wanting clay hills removed to create flat spots.
I donated two small clay hills to the county road department. They were here 2 months with a Cat 320 track hoe filling dump trucks.
In exchange they created two constructed wetlands(ponds) at 1/2 acre each. Gravel put down on my long driveway. Made out like a bandit.

Mind altering clay is a secret formula. Causes people to aggravate others apparently.

After many years growing aquatic plants and testing every aquatic soil sold I found red clay smokes all of them.
It is an expensive potting soil.
I could have sold many tractor trailers of it over the years had I intro-ed it early back in the mid 90's.
Instead I maintained it for a trade secret to smoke my completion with better plants.
I alone shipped out like 400-500 dump truck loads in planted pots.

A sandy/clay mix from my own property. Just right for aquatic plants.

Kaolin moguls sat with Rockerfellers and Carnegies. Big money in clay.

I hope that Billy' company can profit from our clay.

The white eating clay(kaolin) is the messiest. Gloves on anything it contacts.

Hi grannyteach You are close to jamesp so you should be in for some interesting times!

Let me know if I can be of any assistance Billy.
If that mix of clay has any value to your company and they are interested in property.
Developers bought mega acres of AG land in this area speculatively in mid 2000 and are unloading it due to flat real estate market.
Property in the 30-1000 acre range. It is very rural here yet 10-15 miles from Atlanta International Airport and 25 miles from center of Atlanta.
Brick clay has been mined close by for almost a century.
I have bought and sold acreage in this area and am fairly familiar with the area and to some degree the soil.
Tell me what size property and I can send you guys the agent's name.

There is a heavy industrial area 10 miles east next to rail road connecting Palmetto and Fairburn.
Lots of clay rich land near the rail. You guys could grade it flat and sell the property.
That is how brick people did it to create flat land for the Fulton County Industrial area.

I may have answered my own question toiv0.
I have a lot of 200-800 gallon containers fed with 50 gpm water lines on a slope. Like septic tanks.
I could could put clay in a container at a higher level and stir it violently with pressurized water source and drain the suspended clay to a container at a lower level.
Cover the lower container and let it settle. Drain clean water off a week or two later. Collect the settlement. Should be pure clay.

practicalprimitive.com/skillofthemonth/processingclay.html

I have a spare concrete system like this available. It can be bottom drained.
I could fill it with water suspended with clay and let it settle.
Drain the water off.

Fill it up with lounge chairs for full body clay treatments on hot summer days.
It would hold about 60 lounge chairs.
Each lounge chair would have it's own supply of fresh wet pasty clay under it, freshly brewed with potable well water.
Build a greenhouse enclosure over part of it for a 'steamy hot clay full body treatment".
I could apply the wet clay to the ladies. Oh, perhaps better to hire young studs for the ladies and nubile young ladies for the men.
A great social event. Charge by the hour. 60 X $20/hour = $1200/hour. 2 hour minimum.
Mud wrestling adjacent. Full service bar. Solar heated hot water showers. Private rooms...

"SOUTH ATLANTA RED CLAY SPA"

And marketing "South Atlanta Red Clay Facial Treatment Potion".

How much are screens at the junk yard? What is the diameter? Do they have a variety of mesh sizes? I need  a personal set. They sure are handy to have around. 

kind of curious to see what the pure clay looks and performs like. Sometimes where there is no local clay we use the pond fines (settling pond silt and clay) for a lower grade mix and it can be pretty nasty to work.  We worked a huge pile in Wisconsin for years. It had been there for as long as anyone could remember like 50 ft high and 200 ft long. The deeper we would go into it the wetter it was. Once you move clay it never dries out. You can pull it out of a field and work it, but if you have to re screen it down the road or if it rains on your pile you have to line it out to dry before working.