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<br />particles, and that is used widely in the manufacture of such <br />articles as porcelain, building blocks, sewer pipe, tile, and <br />earthenorare or in its raw form in paper manufacture, filtration <br />and oil refining." <br />Turning to Page 1232 in [debster's, the definition <br />for kaolinite is as follows: "a mineral A12Si205(OH)4 con- <br />sisting of a hydrous silicate of aluminum that is polymorphous <br />with dictite and nacrite and constitutes the principal mineral <br />in kaolin." <br />Kaolinite also is described in Webster's as being a <br />"very pure white clay." <br />Looking at Peele's Mineral Engineering Handbook under <br />the enumeration of non-metallic minerals, one finds the word <br />"clay " <br />The Handbook of Mineralogy indicates that clay con- <br />tains kaolinite, a mineral. And the Handbook of Chemistry and <br />Physics says that kaolinite is in China clay, <br />The attorney general cited three English cases. <br />Hext v. Gill, L. R. 7 Ch. 699-719 (s. c. 41 L.J. Ch. 7b1; 27 <br />L.T. 291; 20 [a. R. 957), an 1872 case. Earl of Jersey v. The <br />Guardians of the Poor, etc., an 1889 case. And The Caledonian <br />Railway Company, Appellants; and The Glenboig Union Fireclay <br />Company, Respondents, a 1911 case. Each case was concerning <br />the point in question and stated that clay was considered a <br />mineral. <br />THE COURT, after studying all these definitions and <br />the cases cited, is of the opinion that clay is a substance <br />that i_s exceptional in use, in value and in character, and that, <br />under the facts of this action, it is a mineral as reserved in <br />5 <br />