What is the color of mica schist?

Answer 1

Schist is more of a texture versus a color. A schist is a type of metamorphic rock. What makes a rock fit into the schist category is the orientation of the mineral crystals in the rock. They can be most any color. A large portion of them are dark in color being black, grey or greenish because of the minerals that exist under metamorphic conditions.

Answer 2

Most shale is gray. Other colors of shale would include black, red, green, yellow, and brown. Shale's color will vary depending on the percentage of organic matter and on the presence of minor mineral constituents (ex: limonite, goethite, hematite, chlorite, biotite).

Answer 3

Goes from silvery white to all shades of gray, green, pink, brown, and red.

Answer 4

Most varieties of shale are colored in various shades of gray, but other colors, such as red, pink, green, brown, and black, are often present.

Answer 5

a schist's colour is usually sparkly greyish

Answer 6

green,gray,dark brown, silver, also other colors

Answer 7

A mica schist rock could appear in many colors: brown, blackish, green, gold, etc. It depends on the type of mica, and the other minerals that may be contained within it.

Answer 8

Pale gray to black.