| M Formula: | MgO |
| Grade: | |
| 85–87% (from magnesite ores); 97–99% (from seawater and brines). | |
| Use: | |
| Refractories, as grains or basic brick, the latter especially in open hearth furnaces for steel, furnaces for nonferrous metal smelting, and in cement and other kilns. | |