Is slate a mineral or rock?

Answer 1

Slate is made up of mostly of quartz and muscovite, often with some biotite, chlorite, and/or hematite. Small quantities of apatite, graphite, kaolin, magnetite, tourmaline, and zircon may also be present in measureable amounts.

Answer 2

Slate is a type of metamorphic rock, not a mineral. It is formed from the metamorphism of shale or mudstone, resulting in its characteristic fine-grained texture and foliated structure.

Answer 3

Shale is composed of a mix of clay minerals and quartz and calcite. It is the most abundant form of sedimentary rock.

Answer 4

There is hipemondgosis, graphite, chalk,herminatopscelosis and calcium.

Answer 5

There are a variety of minerals found in slate. Some of these minerals include quartz, muscovite, as well as illite.

Answer 6

one mineral that slate contains is quartz.

Answer 7

Shale is formed from fine mud, clay, and silt. It has a smooth surface and can be split into layers. Shale may be red, brown, gray or black. Some have alternating dark and light layers.

Answer 8

Clay + chlorite, mica, quartz, biotite, hematite, pyrite

Answer 9

Slate is fine-grained metamorphic rock.

Answer 10

it is a rock.

It is in the sedimentary group