Looking east at the Chesco Mine, Nevada
The mineral garnet is the preferred abrasive for the sandblasting of bridges, ship hulls, oil tanks, oil pipelines, and pumping and drilling systems.
It is also ideal for waterjet cutting, and other uses such as water filtration systems and sewage treatment plants.
The unique geologic properties of garnet make it a superlative industrial abrasive.
With respect to hardness, specific gravity, and inertness, CRI's garnet is of an outstanding quality.
Garnet has proven to be a cost effective alternative media for applications where silica sand, which is now known to have health risks, would traditionally have been used. This is due to its recylability, low material consumption rate, purity, and high productivity rate.
With recent environmental restrictions on the use of silica (sand) and other blasting agents, garnet has become the abrasive of choice for industrial applications.
Garnet is used for heavy-duty abrasive blasting and cleaning, as a fine abrasive powder, for waterjet cutting, and even water filtration.