Connell Bros. Company Ltd. Offers Lime or Quicklime Mineral. Connell Bros. Company Ltd. Supplies coating inks, plastic rubbers, food ingredients and personal and household care. Lime or Quicklime Mineral is used for lime exploit the alkalinity that is created when the lime is formed. Lime or Quicklime Mineral is a strong base, so reacts with, and neutralizes, acids. It is used to treat wastewater, drinking water and other industrial acid streams. This is widely used to desulfurize stack emissions in coal- and oil-fired power plants. The lime reacts with sulfur in the coal or oil to form calcium sulfate [gypsum]. It can be used in the secondary refining of steel and in the manufacture of steel products.