A crystallochemical approach to the problem of choosing raw materials for the production of inorganic building materials has been proposed and substantiated. Crystallochemical parameters of substances of the following stages are proposed to be used as the main criteria in the selection, design and development of the production technology of building materials: genesis of raw materials, technogenesis, operation of building materials. The dependence of the formation of technological properties of materials on the degree of crystallinity of the initial minerals has been revealed. The formulated principles of choosing the rational area of using natural and anthropogenic raw materials in the building materials industry, based on the crystallochemical features of the main rock-forming minerals, allowed to develop effective fine-grained concretes using wastes of wet magnetic separation of ferrous quartzite and the technology of their production.
