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What is the mineral barite used for?

Barite is barium sulphate. It is either colorless, white, light yellow, light blue, light green, light red. Can be used medicinally as an indicator, as a filler in paper and playing cards, as a paint pigment or as a lubricant when added to drilling mud.

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