“…The main crystalline phase in basalt-based glass ceramics is the pyroxene solid solution: (Ca,Mg,Fe)SiO 3 [1,[5][6][7]. Some kinetic studies of the crystallization processes in the basalt-based glass ceramics, in which different nucleation agents (TiO 2 , CaF 2 , ZrO 2 ) have been used represented the object of some previous papers [8,9]. The purpose of the present paper is to establish a correlation between the composition of the basalt glass, the proportion and the nature of the nucleation agents, the activation energy of the crystallization processes and the physico-mechanical properties of the obtained glass-ceramics.…”