The specimen above is a typical granite.
Information about black granite.
Granite is the most common intrusive rock in earth s continental crust it is familiar as a mottled pink white gray and black ornamental stone it is coarse to medium grained.
Its three main minerals are feldspar quartz and mica which occur as silvery muscovite or dark biotite or both.
The most common accessory minerals are the black mica biotite and the black amphibole hornblende.
It is about two inches across.
The pink grains are orthoclase feldspar and the clear to smoky grains are quartz or muscovite.
Granites can be predominantly white pink or gray in color depending on their mineralogy the word granite comes from the latin granum a grain in reference to the coarse grained structure of such a completely crystalline rock.
Numerous other minerals can be present in granite.
In the construction industry black rocks that share the hardness and strength of granitic rocks are known as black granite.
Thus classic granite has a salt and pepper look.
The grain size is coarse enough to allow recognition of the major minerals.
That light background color is punctuated by the darker accessory minerals.
Granite ˈ ɡ r æ n ɪ t is a common type of felsic intrusive igneous rock that is granular and phaneritic in texture.
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The quartz and feldspar generally give granite a light color ranging from pinkish to white.
Nothing is more emotive to granite fabricators stonemasons granite wholesalers and granite producers than the subject of black granite.
Granite is high in quartz about 25 feldspar and mica.
Color variation is a response to the percent of each mineral found in the sample.
Facts to consider about black granites.
The black grains can be biotite or hornblende.