Well there are four general reasons why people do not go with granite.
Why isn t granite a mineral.
The minerals found in granite are non metallic.
Therefore they are not malleable nor a conductor.
Why isn t granite the top countertop choice then.
Some authors believe that water should be considered to be a mineraloid a material that meets some of the requirements of being a mineral but falls short others disagree because they believe that a mineraloid only fails to meet the requirements of being a mineral because it is.
Even though granite contains metal ions the minerals.
Water is not a mineral.
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.
Color variation is a response to the percent of each mineral found in the sample.
Granite is a rock not a mineral.
However it freezes into ice which is a mineral.
Some consider water to be a mineraloid.
Quartz biotite light colored mica muskovite dark colored mica white feldspar pink feldspar.
Granite is a course grained intrusive silicic igneous rock it is a nonmetallic resource.
There has to be a catch though right.