“…Beyond halloysite, minerals as alunite (aluminum sulfate), quartz, kaolinite, and gibbsite [CaSO4.2H2O] were also found. As shown in Figure 2, natural halloysite shows a sharp peak at 2θ of 20.1°, which is the characteristic (1 1 0) peak of tubular halloysite (Bodeepong et al, 2011;Abdullayev et al, 2012;Zhang et al, 2012;Carrillo et al, 2014). No intercalation of sulfuric acid into interlayer space is observed, as the (0 0 1) reflection does not shift to lower angles.…”