Chemicals Calcite and Dolomite, when heated and in some cases slurried or combined with salt, are used in making many common everyday products such as paper, glass, paint and varnish, soap and detergents, textiles, refractories, baking powder, and pharmaceuticals, including milk of magnesia and bicarbonate of soda. Finely ground, they are used to control coal mine dust, to collect sulfur dioxide from power plant exhaust , to sweeten soils, and as ingredients in fertilizer and stock feeds, to name a few.
Limestone is used extensively in Michigan to refine beet sugar.
Lime and Cement Calcite or Dolomite, when burned to drive off gases, form burnt lime. Among the uses for burnt lime, in addition to steel making, are water and sewage treatment, acid waste neutralization, and road base stabilization. Steelmaking Calcite or Dolomite is used to make steel. Aggregates Crushed and sized Calcite and Dolomite are used in concrete, road construction, building materials, and as a filler in asphalt.