Commercial granite

Commercial granite

A general term for a decorative building stone that is hard and crystalline. It may be a granite, gneiss, syenite, monzonite, granodiorite, anorthosite, or larvikite.

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Industry/Domain: Mining
Category: General mining; Mineral mining
Government Agency: USBM
Product: Dictionary of Mining, Mineral, & Related Terms - 2nd Edition
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