If you like to read about minerals and their producing, this list of the 10 largest barite producing countries in the world for you! We have brought Insider Monkey’s article again, which is an arresting one. Well, at first we would like to make it clear what barite is. To tell you the truth I had to look after it, as I have never heard its name. As a matter of fact it’s not one of the basic minerals, but it is important, for example to drill gas and oil, or in the isotopic analysis of oxygen and sulphur. It’s also important material as a pigment for textiles and paper, and as a coating of cars etc.
Actually, you can find the United States on this list, but only on the seventh place, as it would have to increase its production by over 700% in order to be able to hit the top. You may not be surprised, if we let the cat out of the bag – China is the number one on this list, again. Nevertheless, the United States is by far the largest consumer of this material throughout the whole world. Another fact that the US pays for a material that could be produced inland too, instead of creating jobs to fellow-countrymen. It’s easy to find out the reason: naturally it’s cheaper to let other countries to mine and then purchase it at a low price. Therefore we can say that the United States help other countries instead of giving jobs to its own people. In the result we can see that the wealth disparity is constantly growing in America. Consequently instead of a powerful, and potential growing middle class, we can see that these people, with valuable degrees can’t even afford a car, not speaking about purchasing a real property. But we can tell you good news related to mining barite – its producing increased by 9% in 2019, and its value is $44 million USD. Who knows, maybe in the future we can live to see the golden age of a growing middle class again!
Now, without a further ado, let’s check out the list of the 10 largest barite producing countries.
10. Russia
2018 barite production (in million tons): 163
2019 barite production (in million tons): 160
9. Turkey
2018 barite production (in million tons): 245
2019 barite production (in million tons): 250
8. Laos
2018 barite production (in million tons): 90
2019 barite production (in million tons): 420
7. United States of America
2018 barite production (in million tons): 366
2019 barite production (in million tons): 390
6. Mexico
2018 barite production (in million tons): 380
2019 barite production (in million tons): 400
2018 barite production (in million tons): 490
2019 barite production (in million tons): 490
4. Kazakhstan
2018 barite production (in million tons): 620
2019 barite production (in million tons): 62
3. Morocco
2018 barite production (in million tons): 940
2019 barite production (in million tons): 1,100
2. India
2018 barite production (in million tons): 2,390
2019 barite production (in million tons): 2,200
1. China
2018 barite production (in million tons): 2,900
2019 barite production (in million tons): 2,900
This was our list of the 10 largest barite producing countries in the world, and hopfully you found it arresting!
