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Barium Sulfate 90% Min Barite Stone

Barite Stone

S.G 4.20 Min
Moisture 1% Max
Mesh 200
Water Soluble 0.1% Max
Packing 25 kg. 5ply paper bags.

Other specifications according to API or OCMA standards.

What is Barite?

• Chemistry: BaSO4, Barium Sulfate
• Class: Sulfates
• Group: Barite
• Uses: ore of barium, in heavy muds in oil-well drilling, to increase brilliance in glass-making industry, as filler for paper, cosmetics, textiles, linoleum, rubber goods, paints.
• Specimens
Barite, barites, or heavy spar, a white, yellow, blue, red, or colorless mineral. It is a sulfate of barium, BaSO4, found in nature as tabular crystals or in granular or massive form and has a high specific gravity. The mineral is widely distributed throughout the world. It often occurs in veins with lead and zinc minerals. It is insoluble in water, and this property is made use of in testing for the sulfate radical. It is practically insoluble under ordinary conditions in all the usual chemical reagents. Barite is used as a commercial source of barium and many of its compounds. Ground barite is used as filler in the manufacture of linoleum, oilcloth, paper and textile manufacturing, rubber, and plastics. Finely ground barite is used to make a thixotropic mud for sealing oil wells during drilling. Prime white, a bleached barite, is used as a pigment in white paint but is not as satisfactory as blanc fixe, a chemically precipitated barium sulfate, or lithopone, a mixture of barium sulfate, zinc sulfide, and zinc oxide. Barites is a material with environmental protecting function, it has a lot of advantages, such as a strong inertia, good stability, acid and alkali proof, moderate rigidity, high specific gravity, high whiteness, absorb in harmful radial. So, it is widely used in the fields of all kinds of dope, middle and high-grade paint, engineering plastic, medicine compounding chemical industry, rubber, paper-making, pottery, cosmetic etc. Barite is a common mineral and makes very attractive specimens. It often is an accessory mineral to other minerals and can make a nice backdrop to brightly colored crystals. At times bladed or tabular crystals of Barite form a concentric pattern of increasingly larger crystals outward. This has the appearance of a flower and when colored red by iron stains, these formations are called "Desert Roses". Because Barite is so common, it can be confused for other minerals. Celestite (SrSO4) has the same structure as barite and forms very similar crystals. The two are indistinguishable by ordinary methods, but a flame test can distinguish them. By scrapping the dust of the crystals into a gas flame the color of the flame will confirm the identity of the crystal. If the flame is a pale green it is barite, but if the flame is red it is celestite. The flame test works because the elements barium (Ba) and strontium (Sr) react in the flame and produce those colors.

Barite Geology [BaSO4]

A dense sulfate mineral that can occur in a variety of rocks, including limestone and sandstone, and is commonly used to add weight to drilling mud. Barite is of significance to petrophysicists because excess barite can require a correction factor in some well log measurements.

Barite Packing

All grades of Barite are available in various types of packaging:
1. 1 Ton Jumbo bags
2. 25kg package for powder

Barite Physical Properties

Hardness 3-3.5 Calcite-Copper Penny
Specific gravity 4.3-4.6
Cleavage [010] Perfect, [210] Perfect, [010] Imperfect
Color White, Yellowish white, Grayish white, Brownish white, Dark brown
Density 4.48
Diaphaniety Transparent to translucent to opaque
Fracture Uneven - Flat surfaces (not cleavage) fractured in an uneven pattern
Habits Tabular - Form dimensions are thin in one direction., Prismatic - Crystals Shaped like Slender Prisms (e.g. tourmaline)., Massive - Fibrous - Distinctly fibrous fine-grained forms. Crystal Habits include the bladed crystals that are dominated by two large pinacoid faces top and bottom and small prism faces forming a jutting angle on every side. There are many variations of these faces but the flattened blades and tabular crystals are the most common. If the pinacoid faces become diminished or are absent, the resulting prismatic crystal has a rhombic cross section. Also scaly, lamellar, and even fiberous.
Luminescence Phosphorescent
Luster Vitreous (Glassy)
Streak white
Synonym Barytes, Cawk, Heavy Spar, ICSD 16904,PDF 24-1035, Wolnyn

Barite General Properties: BaSO4

Composition Molecular Weight = 233.39 gm      
  Barium 58.84 % Ba 65.70% BaO
  Sulfur 13.74 % S 34.30% SO3
  Oxygen 27.42 % O  
    ______   ______
    100.00 %   100.00 % = TOTAL OXIDE

Environment: Sedimentary rocks and late gangue mineral in ore veins.
IMA Status: Approved IMA 1960
Locality: Roses of a red-brown color and sandy texture near Norman, Oklahoma. Link to MinDat.org Location Data.
Name Origin: From the Greek, baryos, "heavy."
Synonym: Barytes, Cawk, Heavy Spar, CSD 16904, PDF 24-1035, Wolnyn
Cleavage: [010] Perfect, [210] Perfect, [010] Imperfect
Color: White, Yellowish white, Grayish white, Brownish white, Dark brown.
Density: 4.48
Diaphaniety: Transparent to translucent to opaque
Fracture: Uneven - Flat surfaces (not cleavage) fractured in an uneven pattern.
Habits: Tabular - Form dimensions are thin in one direction., Prismatic - Crystals Shaped like Slender Prisms (e.g. tourmaline)., Massive - Fibrous - Distinctly fibrous fine-grained forms.
Hardness: 3-3.5 - Calcite-Copper Penny
Luminescence: Phosphorescent.
Luster: Vitreous (Glassy)
Streak: white

Barite Optical Properties

Gladstone-Dale CI meas= 0.014 (Superior) - where the CI = (1-KPDmeas/KC)
CI calc= 0.014 (Superior) - where the CI = (1-KPDcalc/KC)
KPDcalc= 0.1428,KPDmeas= 0.1428,KC= 0.1448
Optical Data Biaxial (+), a=1.634-1.637, b=1.6355-1.638, g=1.646-1.648, bire=0.0110-0.0120, 2V(Calc)=36-42,
2V(Meas)=36-40. Dispersion weak, r < v
Pleochroism (x) Colorless
Pleochroism (y) Colorless
Pleochroism (z) Colorless

Barite Calculated Properties

Electron Density ſelectron=3.99 gm/cc
note: ſBarite =4.48 gm/cc
Photoelectric PEBarite = 265.56 barns/electron
U=PEBarite X ſelectron=1,060.27 barns/cc
Radioactivity GRapi = 0 (Gamma Ray American Petroleum Institute Units)
  Barite is Not Radioactive

API grade barite. Provide density increase without altering mud theology. Also available in bulk form.