How to distinguish barite value?.
Distinguishing feature: the relative density of barite (D = 4.3 - 4.5) is its outstanding feature, so it can be distinguished from other similar minerals. In the chip, barite and celestite is very similar, but the axis of barite angle is smaller, the interference color is slightly higher. The difference between barite and anhydrite is that the refractive index of barite is large, while the birefringence is much lower than that of anhydrite.
Barite is the most common mineral of barium, which is made up of barium sulfate. In the low temperature hydrothermal veins, such as quartz barite vein, fluorite and barite vein, often associated with galena, sphalerite, chalcopyrite, cinnabar etc.. Barite deposits in China's Hunan, Guangxi, Qinghai and Jiangxi are mostly large hydrothermal mineral veins. Barite can be produced in sedimentary rocks, sedimentary rocks are like tuberculosis, mud and sand in sedimentary manganese deposits in shallow water and. In the residual clay deposits of weathered residual deposits, they often become compact and massive.
In simple terms, barite depends on whiteness, its proportion of elements contained in general, take samples to detect a contrast, want to develop a series of procedures, to the Ministry of land and resources for mining permits, then go to the Security Bureau of safety production license.
