Barite (production)

The activity generating the emissions is barite production. The reference product is barite. Barite is a metal. It is a barium-based mineral that is also called barium sulfate. It is a direct product of mining and beneficiation and a by-product of niobium mine operation and beneficiation, from pyrochlore ore. It can be used in the following applications and/or processes: mainly used in the drilling process, medical industry, plastics, clutch pads, rubber mudflaps, mold release compounds, radiation shielding, television and computer monitors, sound-deadening material in automobiles, traffic cones, brake linings, paint and golf balls. The reference product amount is 1. The cut-off classification is allocatable product. The activity type is ordinary ordinary transforming activity. Please refer to the ecoinvent documentation here for full details: https://ecoquery.ecoinvent.org/3.11/cutoff/dataset/3413/documentation.