A granite containing both muscovite and biotite micas is called a binary or two mica granite.
Two minerals found in granite.
So the first two.
The crystals in granite provide a variety of mixed colors feldspar pink or red mica dark brown or black quartz clear pink white or black and amphibole black.
Granite is high in quartz about 25 feldspar and mica.
This simple definition enables students to easily identify the rock based upon a visual inspection.
The two main minerals in a granite are quartz and feldspar in an extreme case you could have a granite comprising of just those two minerals though that almost never happens.
Granite is a coarse grained light colored igneous rock composed mainly of feldspars and quartz with minor amounts of mica and amphibole minerals.
The minor essential minerals of granite may include muscovite biotite amphibole or pyroxene.
It is widely used for architectural facades construction materials ornamental stone and monuments.
The sodic amphiboles and pyroxenes riebeckite arfvedsonite aegirine are characteristic of the alkali granites.