barytes

The mineral barite is a heavy white sulphate of barium, frequently called "barytes" or "heavy spar."

The Economic Aspect of Geology 1915

And they did not mine barytes much here until the 20th century.

Archive 2008-08-01 2008

In Saturday's issue of The Times David Aaronovitch wrote: I am as captivated by the abandoned cottages and workings of the 18th-century barytes miners beside the Shropshire Stiperstones as I am by the 2,000-year-old white tombs of Turkish Lycia.

David Aaronovitch trespasses on my manor 2008

In Saturday's issue of The Times David Aaronovitch wrote: I am as captivated by the abandoned cottages and workings of the 18th-century barytes miners beside the Shropshire Stiperstones as I am by the 2,000-year-old white tombs of Turkish Lycia.

Archive 2008-08-01 2008

And they did not mine barytes much here until the 20th century.

David Aaronovitch trespasses on my manor 2008

Isola said the focus will be on seven minerals: coal, bitumen, limestone, iron ore, barytes, gold and lead/zinc, selected for their importance to Nigeria's economy and their availability in amounts sufficient to sustain mining operations for several years.

ANC Daily News Briefing 2008

Two oxides of the earthy alkaline metals, lime and hydrate of barytes, may also be used as accelerators.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 832, December 12, 1891 Various

The only difficulties I see in applying this process at once to the cane juice, are the large quantity of barytes required, the expense of re-burning it and the entire change in works that would be necessary before it could be introduced.

The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. P. L. Simmonds

To show you the degree of economy practised in such establishments in France, I may mention that the washings of the saccharate of barytes are sold to the makers of potash and soda, who make a profit by boiling them down to obtain what salts they contain.

The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. P. L. Simmonds

He accordingly proposed a double injection, first by muriate of barytes, and, secondly, by sulphate of copper, forced through by the Boucherie process, and it is presumed that the ties of 1870, in experiment No. 2, which showed favorable results when examined in 1875, were prepared by that process.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 514, November 7, 1885 Various