How to Identify 10 Red and Pink Minerals
Jun 22, 2019· This list includes, primarily, minerals that form crystals, or at least solid grains for which red or pink is the default color. Here are some rules of thumb about red minerals: 99 times out of 100, a deep red, transparent mineral is a garnet, and 99 times out of 100, a red or orange sedimentary rock owes its color to microscopic grains of the ...