Welcome to AMCARO Mineral Ltd.
We are the owners and operators of one of the largest Barium Sulfate mines in the South America. Our mine contains one of the largest and purest forms of Barium Sulfate found.
Barium (Ba) is the main chemical element in Bairum Sulfate which has many important medical and industrial uses:
- Barium metal oxidizes very easily when exposed to air and is highly reactive with water or alcohol, producing hydrogen gas
- Barite (BaSO4) is extremely important to the petroleum industry, is used in drilling mud, a weighting agent in drilling new oil wells
- Barium sulfate is also a good X-ray absorber, used in X-ray diagnostic work for obtaining images of the digestive system ("barium meals" and "barium enemas")
- Barium is used in root canal filling
- Barium carbonate is used in glass making
- Barium, an alloy with nickel is used in spark plug wire
- Barium oxide is used in a coating for the electrodes of fluorescent lamps, which facilitates the release of electrons
- Because barite significantly blocks X-ray and gamma-ray emissions, it is used as aggregate in high-density concrete for radiation shielding around X-ray units in hospitals, nuclear power-plants, and university nuclear research facilities
- Barium titanate was proposed in 2007 to be used in next generation battery technology for electric cars
- Barium nitrate and chlorate give green colors in fireworks
- Barium sulfate mixture is used as white pigment for paints, it replaced white lead paint
- Barium carbonate is a useful rat poison and can also be used for making bricks
- Barite is used extensively in rubber production
- High purity [barium nitrate] powder is reported to be a key component of new capacitor energy storage systems being developed by EEStor for use in electric vehicles
- Barium peroxide can be used as a catalyst to start an aluminothermy reaction when welding rail tracks together, it can also be used in green tracer ammunition
- Barium is used in brake lining, acoustic foams powder coating
- Barium is a chemical element. It has the symbol Ba, and atomic number 56
- Barium is a soft silvery metallic alkaline earth metal
- Barium is never found in nature in its pure form due to its reactivity to air
- The most common naturally occurring mineral is the very insoluble barium sulfate, BaSO4.
- AMCARO Mineral Ltd mines barium sulfate, BaSO4
- Industrial production of barium metal is the electrolysis of molten barium chloride
- BaSO4 is reduced by graphite carbon to barium sulphide in a blast furnace. This reacts with calcium chloride to form barium chloride, which is much easier to melt than barium sulphate
- Lastly, electrolysis on molten BaCI2 to retrive molten barium and chlorine gas
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