Minerals Corp develops 'green' cement binder product

8/01/2009 - Kaolin miner Minerals Corporation Ltd has begun commercial production of a new cement binder product that it says will slash the amount of carbon emitted in the cement making process.

Minerals Corporation said its KAOCEM product had been independently certified to reduce carbon emissions by 80 per cent.

It said cement was the world's third largest polluter of carbon emissions, after power generation and vehicles, producing about two billion tonnes of carbon emissions each year.