This study focuses on the mineralogical, geochemical and petrographic characterization of three granite rock samples (LTP, LTS and LTMB) from Foumban, West Region of Cameroon. Fusibility tests were carried out on the samples containing the highest amount of alkali to assess the potential of these materials as fluxing admixture for ceramics. The results show that the granite consists of alkaline feldspars, notably orthoclase and microcline of perthitic micro-texture, plagioclases (in particular albite) and also mafic minerals such as amphibole and pyroxene. The quantity of alkali in the samples is quite high (16.83% for LTS, 17.08% for LTMB and 18.87% for LTP) compared to standard data. Fusibility tests carried out on the samples having the highest alkali content (LTMB and LTP) showed that the vitreous phase appears between 1050˚C and 1100˚C in these samples when they were heated. The Fe 2 O 3 and TiO 2 content of LTMB (3.01% and 1.49% respectively) led to a brown colour of its fired product. Therefore, based on their composition, these materials can be used as feldspathic fluxes for the formulation of ceramic products.

In order to promote the use of calcined clays and volcanic scoria from the western Cameroon as Supplementary Cementitious Material (SCM), the physical, chemical and mechanical properties of fresh and hardened cements were investigated. The cement was formulated by substituting 10, 20, 30, and 40% of clinker by calcined clays from Mayouom (Mkm) and Balengou (MKb), and volcanic scoria from Foumbot (PNf). For each of the three raw materials, the loss on ignition is less 1%, the sum %SiO 2 + %Al 2 O 3 + %Fe 2 O 3 is greater than 70%, amorphous phase is present and pozzolanic reactivity with the Chappelle test is greater than 80% of Ca(OH) 2 consumed. This makes it possible to classify MKm, MKb and PNf among the pozzolanic materials. The addition of calcined clay to the clinker, result to an increase in the water to cement ratio, unlike the Foumbot pozzolan, which does not really affect this ratio. The three raw material act as setting retarders, with PNf having a greater retarding effect than MKm and MKb. The compressive strengths of the cements formulated in this study shows that with 10% clinker substitution, cements of class 42.5 can be obtained, and that from 20% onwards, the cements obtained are of class 32.5. However, an addition of more than 20% PNf in the clinker produces cements with strength less than 30 MPa at 28 days. Calcined clay from Balengou and Mayouom could be used as a viable alternate source of SCM for cement production with better performances compared to volcanic scoria from Foumbot.