Abstract
The increasing development in Indonesia today will require higher portland cement consumption. Good quality cement comes from good quality raw materials. A research was conducted in the Gunem area, Rembang, Central Java which is a limestone quarry of PT Semen Indonesia. The research aims to determine physical properties of the limestone and determine the percentage of CaO and MgO and determine the quality of limestone as raw material for Portland cement. This research uses several methods, which are megascopic analysis, petrographic analysis and XRF (X-Ray Fluorescence) analysis. The results shows that wackestone has the lowest content of CaO and the highest content of MgO, while packstone and grainstone have the highest content of CaO and the lowest content of MgO. Packstone and grainstone are classified as high grade for cement raw material, while wackestone is classified as low grade for cement raw material.
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