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What does barite mean?

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  1. (mineralogy) A mineral, barium sulphate, with the chemical formula BaSO4.
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These sedimentary rocks contain a high percentage of volcanic ash that provides the barium necessary for barite formation.
The barite ore is massive and occurs within residuum derived from carbonate units.
He suggested the name barium for the element based on the scientific name for the Bologna stone, barite.
Vein minerals are aragonite, barite, calcite, dolomite, quartz, sphalerite, and whewellite.
And the black smoker chimneys here, unlike most others in the world, are not built of sulfide minerals but of barium sulfate, aka barite.
At Azegour, Morocco, uraninite occurs in tactite with molybdenite, chalcopyrite, barite, pyrite, hematite, and garnet.

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