PHASE AND MICROSTRUCTURAL CHARACTERIZATION OF HAZARA BARITE, PAKISTAN

dc.contributor.author	Sajjad Ali
dc.contributor.author	Yaseen Iqbal
dc.date.accessioned	2023-03-13T09:05:21Z
dc.date.available	2023-03-13T09:05:21Z
dc.date.issued	2011-12-05
dc.identifier.citation	Ali, S., Iqbal, Y., & Ubic, R. (2011). Phase and microstructural characterization of Hazara barite, Pakistan. In JPMS conference issue materials (pp. 30-34).	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	2070-772X
dc.identifier.uri	http://142.54.178.187:9060/xmlui/handle/123456789/18698
dc.description.abstract	Barite is an industrially precipitated mineral and is used in the drilling oil and gas wells. In the present study, barite samples collected from Hazara division of Khyber Pukhtunkhwa (KPK), Pakistan were investigated using X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscope (SEM) and energy dispersive spectroscopy (EDS). The major phases identified in these samples by XRD are of barium strontium sulfate with sulfur as the second phase. SEM of the examined samples revealed the presence of irregular shaped micro-regions along with minor grains of quartz. The elemental analysis through SEM EDS confirmed that all the samples comprise 74-76 wt% Ba along with small amounts (26-24 wt %) of Sulfur and Strontium.	en_US
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.publisher	Peshawar: Materials Research Laboratory Department of Physics University of Peshawar, Pakistan	en_US
dc.title	PHASE AND MICROSTRUCTURAL CHARACTERIZATION OF HAZARA BARITE, PAKISTAN	en_US
dc.type	Article	en_US