Eighteenth International Conference on the Arts in Society

Abstract

Most wadi dams in Oman reservoirs have become a major storage for sediments including clays over the last 30 years. According to statistics, wadi dams have clay fractions which range sometimes from 50% to 70% of the sediments located in these dams. ceramics clays are known to be natural and also easily engineered porous-structured materials. And the ways dams gather these huge quantities of clays are similar to the natural original ways of creating clays by rivers in other parts of the world. Up to now, far too little attention has been paid to the importance of these dams’ sediments of clays for industries in general, and ceramic industry in particular. The aim of this research project has therefore been to evaluate of clays of Wadi Al jizi and Wadi Mistal for ceramics industries applications, especially when used associated with frits to develop glazes.