In this process, barite is crushed and mixed with water and other materials.    From Wordnik.com.  [Barite] Reference

Fischer lets himself sink, drifts down against the base of a barite chimney.    From Wordnik.com.  [Starfish] Reference

In some cases, barite is a by-product of mining lead, zinc, silver, or other metal ores.    From Wordnik.com.  [Barite] Reference

China produces nearly ten times as much barite as the U.S., and India also produces more.    From Wordnik.com.  [Barite] Reference

There are nine barite mines in the United States; in Nevada, Georgia, Tennessee, and Missouri.    From Wordnik.com.  [Barite] Reference

By far, the principal use for barite is as a “weighting agent” in oil and natural gas drilling.    From Wordnik.com.  [Barite] Reference

Currently, the majority of barite consumption in the United States is for this drilling application.    From Wordnik.com.  [Barite] Reference

A more recent application of barite is in the production of brake pads and clutches for cars and trucks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Barite] Reference

A German company is producing synthetic iron ore (hematite) which is proving a good substitute for barite.    From Wordnik.com.  [Barite] Reference

Many barite deposits are known worldwide, but some are uneconomic because barite can be mined more cheaply in China.    From Wordnik.com.  [Barite] Reference

Most barite is mined from layers of sedimentary rock which formed when barite precipitated onto the bottom of the ocean.    From Wordnik.com.  [Barite] Reference

Land use is mainly timber and recreation, with some pastureland for grazing, and barite and iron mining in the southeast.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ecoregions of Iowa and Missouri (EPA)] Reference

Some smaller mines utilize barite from veins, which formed when barium sulfate was precipitated from hot subterranean waters.    From Wordnik.com.  [Barite] Reference

Marion, galena (in barite) from Lockport, Henry County, and large lumps and ground fluorspar and lead concentrates from Marion, Crittenden.    From Wordnik.com.  [Final Report of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission] Reference

The Continental Vein is composed mainly of calcite, dolomite and barite.    From Wordnik.com.  [US Gold Corporation: Nevada Exploration Update - Yahoo! Finance] Reference

Germany is the world's principal producer of barite and has large reserves of high grade.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Economic Aspect of Geology] Reference

Gold occurs in lenses and veins of dense silica-barite rock which replaces the host dacite.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marketwire - Breaking News Releases] Reference

Witherite, the barium carbonate, is a much rarer mineral but is found with barite in some veins.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Economic Aspect of Geology] Reference

Barium compounds, and especially barite (BaSO4), are extremely important to the petroleum industry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Just Thinkin'] Reference

Ground barite is also used in certain kinds of rubber goods and in the making of heavy glazed paper.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Economic Aspect of Geology] Reference

The mineral barite is a heavy white sulphate of barium, frequently called "barytes" or "heavy spar.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Economic Aspect of Geology] Reference

The principal deposits of barite are found in sedimentary rocks, and especially in limestones and dolomites.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Economic Aspect of Geology] Reference

During the 1800s, there were several mines in Cheshire harvesting barite, a white mineral used in paint production.    From Wordnik.com.  [News from www.rep-am.com] Reference

Mineralization consists of zinc carbonate (smithsonite), silver-bearing galena (lead sulphide) and lesser malachite and barite.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marketwire - Breaking News Releases] Reference

The community leader had been campaigning against a barite mine operated by a subsidiary of Calgary-based Blackfire Exploration.    From Wordnik.com.  [CTV News RSS Feed] Reference

The estimated true width of the zinc-rich, copper-bearing, barite-hosted mineralization in CMR-08-19 is 57 \% of the core length.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marketwire - Breaking News Releases] Reference

CMR-08-19 has cut a core length of 126.4 feet (38.5 meters) of zinc-rich, copper bearing, barite hosted mineralization in Zone II.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marketwire - Breaking News Releases] Reference

Before the war the United States imported from Germany nearly half the barite consumed in this country, and produced the remainder.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Economic Aspect of Geology] Reference

The fact that barite is a characteristic mineral of many igneous veins, and the fact that in this same general region it is found in the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Economic Aspect of Geology] Reference

Among these are barite or heavy spar (BaSO4), used as a pigment, which is found in the strata of the Kirtland shale; siderite or brown spar.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tseh So, a Small House Ruin, Chaco Canyon, New Mexico :] Reference

Unweathered galena occurs along fractures filled with silica and barite and elsewhere as disseminations within the matrix of the dolostone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marketwire - Breaking News Releases] Reference

(copper-silver), and Salvadora (barite vein swarm).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Earth Times Online Newspaper] Reference

Coloration for pigment raw materials (barite, kaolin).    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 6] Reference

Sb, Hg) with much coarse-bladed barite deposition.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Earth Times Online Newspaper] Reference

Ireland natural gas, peat, copper, lead, zinc, silver, barite, gypsum, limestone, dolomite.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 2004 CIA World Factbook] Reference