“…Mixed pillared clays were first synthesized in 1979, but are still scarce. The few reported publications concern A1-Cr (Carrado et al, 1986a,b;Skoularikis et al, 1988), A1-Zr (Occelli & Finseth, 1986;Occelli & Rennard, 1984;Occelli, 1986Occelli, , 1987, A1-Si (Occelli & Rennard, 1984;Occelli, 1986Occelli, , 1987Vaughan et al, 1979Vaughan et al, , 1981Gaaf et al, 1983;Sterte & Shabtai, 1987), A1-Mg (Vaughan etal., 1979, 1981, A1-M (M = transition metal) (Vaughan, 1987), A1-UO2 ++ (Suib et al, 1986); A1-Ga (Bradley et al, 1991) and also AI-Fe (Carrado et al, 1986b;Skoularikis et al, 1988;Kostapapas et al, 1986;Lee & Tatarchuk, 1988;Lee et al, 1989). For most of the mixed pillared clays containing Fe, M6ssbauer spectroscopy was used but did not clarify the location of the Fe atoms and the existence of mixed (A1-Fe) pillars has not been proved.…”