barite
barytes BrE

He could show that barite and the new mineral were two different minerals.

The barite reserves are estimated between 0.7 and 2 billion tonnes.

A barite mine has operated near the north end of the Yukon section.

The barite was shipped to Halifax for use in making paint.

Barite and calcite are found in some of the ravines.

It was named for barite ore found near, also known as "tiff".

The deeper the hole, the more barite is needed as a percentage of the total mud mix.

In conventional drilling fluids, barite is used to increase the density (weight).

The Barite Hill mine operated from 1990 to 1994.

Barium is slightly less common, and much of it is in the mineral barite.

Having formerly had 1,000 workers, the mine employed just 14 people towards the end, using the most modern technology to extract barite.

Barite used for drilling petroleum wells can be black, blue, brown or gray depending on the ore body.

The purpose of the mud cleaner is to remove drilled solids larger than barite.

The area produces rubber and barite is mined.

The Ozarks contain ore deposits of lead, zinc, iron and barite.

Few of the islands' mineral resources, which included limestone, building stone, clay, and barite, were exploited until recently.

The Walton barite mine (1941-1978) was the largest producer in Canada.

Resources available for mining include coal, gypsum, iron ore, gold, salt and barite.

Tin mining ceased in 1964 and barite mining in 1991.

He picked another mineral at random, barite.

The American spelling is barite.

Barium can be produced from barite ore.

Many of the ships built in Walton were used to carry gypsum and later barite which was mined locally.

Mr. Baker's property, meanwhile, is on top of an old mine for barite, which was once used as a paint thickener.

In addition it has six 50 m silos for bulk powder cargoes such as barite and cement.

The source of barytes ran out in 1938 and the mine closed.

Barytes has varied usage and is a valuable mineral.

Later Barytes was mined with 5300 ton being produced up to 1879 when again market forces led to production ending.

The transport of the barytes gave much employment and many horses and carts were hired.

The ground barytes were bagged and exported in loads of 200-300 tons for porcelain manufacture.

Other commodities obtained included calamine, manganese, iron, copper and barytes.

During the 19th century barytes was mined near Sannox.

As regards barytes there are two quarries in work, both being within two miles of Chirbury village.

Show a dwarf a rock and he sees, for example, an inferior piece of crystalline sulphite of barytes.

Barytes from here was sent to the Windscale nuclear reactor to smother fuel cells after an accident.

The mineral is named after William Withering, who in 1784 recognized it to be chemically distinct from barytes.

Fairly good reserves of barytes, fluorite, wollastonite and vermiculite have also been found.

"The dummies in town even named a street up here named 'Barytes Drive,' which tells me, of course, they knew about the mines," he said.

Dumyat was formerly the site of small-scale mining for copper and barytes, although these workings are now abandoned.

Bolan barytes are produced in accordance with the American Petroleum Institute specifications.

The Wotherton Barytes Mine operated here until 1911.

It is estimated that 700 lakh tons of barytes deposits might be there in Mangampet.

Barytes (barium sulphate)

The exploitable ones include crude oil, coal, halite (rock salt), canbyite, barytes, limestone, and others, 22 kinds in total.

The mine also produced a small tonnage of copper (bornite) and approx 22,000 tons of fine barytes.

Fillers are usually cheap and inert materials, such as diatomaceous earth, talc, lime, barytes, clay, etc.

It has been, and is, intensively quarried for galena, fluorspar, barytes and, more controversially, limestone.

The upper part of the stone is black and weather-resistant due to its being heavily impregnated with barium sulfate in the form of barytes.

"Rosewood" from Nettler Dale in Sheldon is a kind of barytes and has red and white layers.

Mining-chemical raw materials (rock salt, lime, phosphorites, barytes, etc.) are quite substantial, and are utilized in the republic economy.