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Can a mineral be made of rock?

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8y ago
Updated: 8/21/2019

Rocks are made of minerals. Only a few minerals are rock forming and most rock is made from a combination of the commonest of these. feldspars, quartz, mica, olivine, calcite, pyroxene and amphiboles

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