STUDY OF ABILITY TO CONVERT THE VALUE OF ZrO2 AND TiO2 CONTENT FROM XRD RESULT TO XRF RESULT IN ZIRCON ORE AT BINH THUAN

Abstract

Binh Thuan province has a coastline of more than 192 kms, where located very large reserves of red
sand, containing about 557.5 million tons of Titanium - Zircon minerals, accounting for over 92% of
the total production of Titanium - Zircon minerals of the country (557.5/664 million tons). Research
and application concerning the use of XRD machine to convert the value of ZrO2 and TiO2 content from
XRD result to XRF result are described. This is an alternative method when XRF instrument is in
malfunction. The conversion factor of ZrO2 and TiO2 values from XRD result to XRF result is
calculated as α = 0.6878 and β = 0.104701.