Product Profile of Barytes - Barium Sulphate With Vitreous Luster

Kings International brings Premium Graded Barytes-Barium Sulphate. Kings International is ISO 9001:2000 certified and is the manufacturer, exporter and processor of Minerals and Chemicals etc. The Premium Graded Barytes-Barium Sulphate is a common mineral. This Premium Graded Barytes-Barium Sulphate creates attractive specimens. The Premium Graded Barytes-Barium Sulphate is used as an accessory mineral to other minerals. This Premium Graded Barytes-Barium Sulphate can be used to make a good backdrop to brightly colored crystals. The tabular or bladed crystals of Premium Graded Barytes-Barium Sulphate can make a concentric pattern of progressively bigger crystals outward. This Premium Graded Barytes-Barium Sulphate can be applied in oil drilling, paints, paper, filer in plastic, leather, textile and rubber.
Some chemical specifications of this Premium Graded Barytes-Barium Sulphate:

• Group: Barite

• Class: Sulfates

• Uses: ore of barium

• Chemistry: BaSO4, Barium Sulfate
Physical characteristics of this Barytes-Barium Sulphate:

• Streak is white.

• Luster is vitreous.

• Hardness is 3 - 3.5

• Fracture is conchoidal.

• Crystal System is orthorhombic; 2/m 2/m 2/m

• Transparency crystals are transparent to translucent.

• Cleavage is perfect in one direction, less so in another direction

• Specific Gravity is approximately 4.5 [heavy for translucent minerals]

• Color is variable but is commonly found colorless or white, also blue, green, yellow and red shades.

• Crystal Habits include the bladed crystals. There are many variations of these faces but the flattened blades and tabular crystals are the most common.