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 Amethyst

 Comes in violet to red/purple.
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Granite Gneiss
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Black Diabase
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Same as the Greenspar Porphyry, without the large feldspar crystals, but having  an evenly distributed amount of smaller felspar crystals.
Greenspar Porphyry
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Consists of medium grain porphyritic black diabase with rare, large yellow-green feldspar crystals.


                          Granite
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           White, pink and grey.
Banded Iron Formation
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Contains bands of magnetite and quartz with sulfides (pyrite and chalcopyrite).


Banded Iron Formation
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Contains Jasper and Hematite. Unique to the area, iron formations come in red, purple and yellow brown. This picture shows the Red Jasper and Hematite and Quartz combination.

Marble
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Comes in green, tan,or pink.


Quartz
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A variety of colours, white to grey-blue with varying amounts of sulphides, namely pyrrhotie, sphalerite, arsenopyrite galena and molybdenite.