Nearby stood an assortment of Perspex boxes, numbered and coded, containing paint pigments.
Native Americans are believed to have used this trail to reach mines of red ochre (also known as vermilion), which they used for paint pigment.
The companies that bought the spheres were manufacturing finely ground powder products like paint pigments, flour and cosmetics.
The Tohono O'odham people obtained red paint pigments from the area.
He uses caesin for his paintings; a mixture of paint pigment and a milk-based protein.
Officials said the proposed plant would be able to produce 60,000 tons annually of titanium dioxide, a white crystalline compound used as a paint pigment.
In paint pigments, cadmium forms various salts, with CdS being the most common.
An example is zinc oxide, a common paint pigment, which is extremely toxic to aquatic life.
The use of Siberian red lead as a paint pigment then developed rapidly.
Leonardo was a chemist in so much as that he experimented with different media for suspending paint pigment.