In the north-central region of the state of Piauí, in the municipalities of Juazeiro de Piauí and Castelo do Piauí, there is a Morisca rock mining, widely used for external coating applications in civil construction. Aiming at a sustainable practice for its extraction, which includes the economical use of the tailings from its mining, this work presents a solution for the use of discarded materials from processing morisca from Piauí. In this context, the analysis results of using morisca as a substitute for clay materials for applications in red ceramics are presented. For the analyses, XRF, XRD, Microgranulometry, Limits of Consistency, TG, DTG, and the set of technological tests inherent to ceramic materials were used. It was concluded that morisca powder is viable as a clay substitute for red ceramic applications