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Lime’s Myriad Uses Lime is the versatile mineral.  Various forms of lime are used in environmental, metallurgical, construction, and chemical/industrial applications, and more.  The fastest growing use of lime is in environmental applications, where lime is used to comply with air, drinking water, wastewater, and solid waste regulations. However, the largest single use of lime remains steel […]

The word “lime” refers to products derived from heating (calcining) limestone. In the Beginning Limestone is a naturally occurring and abundant sedimentary rock consisting of high levels of calcium and/or magnesium carbonate and/or dolomite (calcium and magnesium carbonate), along with minerals.  Lime production begins by extracting limestone from quarries and mines. Sizing  . . . […]

What do you think of when you hear the word “lime?” Do you think of little green fruit, used in margaritas?  Or maybe an illness transported by mosquitos? That’s not the kind of lime we’re talking about.  We’re talking about the versatile mineral, the building block of construction and human progress that is a fundamental […]