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Everything you ought to know about granite

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MINERALOGY

"Granite is a common and widely occurring type of intrusive, felsic, igneous rock. Granites are usually medium to coarse grained, occasionally with some individual crystals larger than the groundmass forming a rock known as porphyry. Granites can be pink to dark gray or even black, depending on their chemistry and mineralogy."

Wikipedia

THERE ARE FOUR PRIMARY MATERIALS THAT COMPOSE GRANITE.

• Feldspar - typically white grains
• Quartz - typically light grey glassy grains
• Mica - typically black flaky grain.
• Hornblende - typically black to dark green

The colours and patterns in granite can reveal the region and the geological conditions that created it. Each slab is unique, with random and inconsistent patterns throughout.

Granites can be grained, speckled, veined like marble or all off the above. The irregularities and individuality from one piece of granite to another only serves to add to the appeal and gives it its own unique natural beauty.