The Law of the National Solid Waste Policy demanded the extinction of controlled dumps and landfills in Brazilian municipalities. Although the date 2010 law, so far most municipalities have yet to deploy landfills. The situation is no different in the state of Roraima, where none of his fifteen (15) municipalities has a landfill in operation. This work aims to minimize this occurrence, as studying the properties and geotechnical contents of a clay soil deposit of Rorainópolis municipality that may be used as a building material mineral barriers of a possible Syndicated landfill that will serve the municipalities that make up the metropolitan area of southern Roraima, namely: Rorainópolis, São João da Baliza, São Luís and Caroebe. The clay soil was subjected to an comprehensive experimental program consisting of hydraulic conductivity tests, simple compression and contraction on specimens with different mass-volume-moisture relations, compacted in standard, intermediate and modified energies. The experimental program aimed to establishing a range of variation of volume-mass-moisture values that met the criteria usually employed in the construction specification of mineral barriers, i.e. hydraulic conductivity equal to or less than power from 10 high less 9 m / s, compressive resistance higher than 200 KPa and volumetric shrinkage of less than 4,0 per cent. The results of the experimental program demonstrated that the soil must have a specific weight of 14.75 more or less 0.5 KN / m to cube, and a moisture of 28.0 more or less 3.0 per cent content, in order to meet the criteria hydraulic conductivity and resistance. The results show that the volumetric shrinkage criterion cannot be meet due to the presence of 2: 1 clay soil composition studied. Nevertheless, it is possible to use it as a building material mineral barrier, as long as care is adopted to prevent desiccation. In addition it was determined the soil shear parameters of resistance through direct shear tests to enable the slope stability analysis.