Industrial Minerals


Indian barytes returning to normal levels after monsoon

01 March 2011

by IM prices reporter

Production at Andhra Pradesh barytes mine at 75% capacity after weather disruption

Keywords: barytes, drilling mud, oilfield minerals, APMDC

Supply of barytes is slowly returning to normal levels in India after a prolonged and heavy monsoon season adversely affected mining operations at the end of last year. In Andhra Pradesh, where the vast majority of the country’s barytes production is located, persistent rainfall during September and October last year resulted in severe...