Barite is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.
You can make 149 anagrams from letters in barite (abeirt).
First recorded in 1780-90; bar(ytes) + -ite1
Witherite, the barium carbonate, is a much rarer mineral but is found with barite in some veins.
The principal deposits of barite are found in sedimentary rocks, and especially in limestones and dolomites.
The gangue is mainly fine-grained quartz or jasperoid, and barite.
Thus calc spar is a common name for calcite, heavy spar for barite, needle spar for aragonite, and so on.
Germany is the world's principal producer of barite and has large reserves of high grade.
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