Our ADIRONDACK garnet abrasive delivers the BARTON advantage. Our mine yields the sharpest, hardest garnet media on Earth, with unbeatable quality and durability. Named for the Adirondack Mountains where it is exclusively mined by The BARTON Group, ADIRONDACK garnet’s unique crystalline structure produces highly angular, sharp-edged grains.

Hardest Garnet Media

The structure of ADIRONDACK hard rock garnet causes it to fracture into sharp-edged grains. No matter how small they are crushed, the crystals never have a blunt or worn edge. It is this self-sharpening characteristic that makes our Adirondack deposit the best source of industrial garnet found anywhere in the world.

ADIRONDACK garnet abrasive

The crystalline garnet ore is mined from an open pit and crushed before being separated into grades and products. A large, state-of-the-art concentrate mill uses multiple stage separation techniques to produce a high-purity, high-quality feed stock for the finished-goods mills.

BARTON ADIRONDACK garnet abrasive is produced with strict, comprehensive, internal quality control standards adopted from ISO, TQM, ANSI, ASQ resulting in the cleanest, most precisely graded blasting and waterjet cutting abrasives in the world — we guarantee it.