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What are the rock forming minerals and its meaning.
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What are the rock forming minerals and its meaning.

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Any mineral that forms igneous, sedimentary, or metamorphic rocks and that typically, or solely, forms as an intimate part of rock-making processes.
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There are almost 5000 known mineral species, yet the vast majority of rocks are formed from combinations of a few common minerals, referred to as “rock-forming minerals”.

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