Investigation on Calcined Magnesium-Based Mineral Powder and Its Behavior as Alternative Binder

Table 1

Magnesite and steatite properties.

	Magnesite	Steatite
Physical properties
Specific gravity	3.2	2.7
Loss of ignition (%)	45.99	3.33
Chemical properties
SiO2 (%)	8.97	62.67
Al2O3 (%)	0.30	0.24
MgO (%)	43.54	33.26
Fe2O3 (%)	0.64	0.30
CaO (%)	0.56	0.20