Two cavities, one of them bad. The dentist visit and bill has left you too stressed out to work. You take the rest of the day off. Later, you flick on the television, a real assortment of mineral byproducts. One of these comes from barite.
Barite derivatives are very opaque.
As the day ends, you lie down on sheets laundered with detergent. But you can t sleep, and reach for a bottle of pills. They are made from refined dolomite. Rocks, minerals and their by products thus are essential to our everyday existence. Without them, society as we know it could not exist.