Pigments are used for colouring of products such as paint, plastic, glass, tiles and bricks. Most pigments used in manufacturing are dry colourants represented as a fine powder. This powder is added to a relatively neutral or colourless material that acts as a binder.

African Pegmatite is the producer of such pigments for mainly the glass, brick, cement, rubber and tile industries. Below is a showcase of the pigments we offer at African Pegmatite

Product	Application	Examples
Red Iron Oxide	Colourant for glass, ceramics and cement. Jewellers Rouge.Polishing powders and waxes. Filler inorganic substances. Paint industry – primer paints for metal and wood..
Chrome Flour - (Iron Chromite)	Used in the Ceramic, brick and glass industries. It produces green colours in glass containers - from Emerald Green to Deadleaf Greens
Iron Pyrites	Sulphur source for glass, rubber, explosives, Sulphur impregnated compounds and reductant for metal refining.Used to produce Amber colours in glassware.
Manganese Umbers	Used in the production of Black Champagne bottles.It is also a colourant in clay, it produces yellow, brown, purple or black colors. It acts as a strong flux.
Anthracite	Used as a reductant to trim redox levels, making clear glass and colouring cement.
Black Cupric Oxide	Used in formulation of timber preservation compounds, glass and ceramic industry colourant, pulvo-metalurgical processes, as soil nutrient or minor element in feed additives, in coatings for ferrite manufacture
Yellow Iron Oxide	Polishing powders and waxes. Filler inorganic substances. Paint industry – primer paints for metal and wood
Brown Oxide	Used as a colourant in ceramics, glass, brick and the tile industries. Soil nutrient. Cost effective pigment putties, cement and paints

Colour	Colour Variation	Material (combination)	Conditions
Blues	Blue	CuO & CoO
	Blue (Violet tint)	CoO
	Sky Blue	CuO
	Blue Green	Fe2O3 + CoO, CuO + Cr2O3, FeO
Browns	Red to Yellow Brown	MnO2 + Fe2O3	Oxidised
	Carbon Amber	C + Na2SO4 + (FeS2)	Reduced
	Brown Orange	Se (red) + Fe2O3	Not Oxidised
	Brown / Grey	NiO
Grey	Grey	MnO2 + Fe2O3 + CuO	Oxidised
Grey	Grey	NiO + above in Soda-Lime glasses
Green	Antique Green	Fe2O3+(C + Cr2O3)	Reduced
	Emerald Green	Cr2O3	Reduced
	Grass Green	Cr2O3 + CuO	Oxidised
	Yellow Green	Cr2O3	Oxidised
		Pr6O11
		K2Cr2O7
		U3O8 (fluorescent)	Reduced
		FeO	Oxidised
	Green Blue	FeO	Reduced
		Cr2O3 + CuO	Reduced
	Moss Green	Cr2O3 + CoO	Reduced
		Cr2O3 + NiO2	Reduced
	Olive Green	Fe2O3 + CrO3	Oxidised
		Cr2O3 + MnO2	Oxidised
Yellow	Yellow / Green tint	CdS	Reduced
	Intense Yellow	U3O8 + Pr6O11	Oxidised
	Gold Yellow	Se + MnO2 in PbO glasses
	Canary Yellow	TiO2 + Ce2O3
	Yellow / green fluorescence	U3O8	Oxidised
	Amber Yellow	MnO2 + FeO	Oxidised
		Se in PbO glasses
Orange	Orange Red	CdS + Se	Slightly Reduced
Orange	Orange Brown	Se
Rose	Rose / Pink	Se not in PbO glasses	Reduced
Red	Ruby	Se + CdS not in PbO glasses	Reduced + on Reheating
		Au
	Copper Ruby or Antique Ruby	Cu2O	Reduced + on Reheating
	Red Violet	MnO2 + Se	Oxidised
	Wine Red	Nd2O3 + Se	Not Oxidised
Black	Black	FeS
		MnO2+Fe2O3+NiO+CoO+CuO	Oxidised
		Se +CoO	Reduced
Violet	Red Violet	MnO2 in Soda Lime Glasses	Oxidised
	Blue Violet	MnO2 in Potash Glasses	Oxidised
	Violet	NiO in PbO + in Potash Glasses
	Rose Violet	Nd2O3
		MnO2 + CoO	Oxidised