Soapstones

Soapstone (also known as steatite or soaprock) is a talc-schist, which is a type of metamorphic rock. It is composed largely of the magnesium rich mineral talc. It is produced by dynamo thermal metamorphism and metasomatism, which occur in the zones where tectonic plates are subducted, changing rocks by heat and pressure, with influx of fluids, but without melting. It has been a medium for carving for thousands years.

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Soapstone/Talc in Pakistan:

Abbotabad & Mansehra Region:

This district alongside adjoining zone was exposed to mountain-working in Early Cambrian occasions over 500 million years prior and granitization occurred over huge territories of the request for a great many Square Kilometers Apart from the significant final result rock various middle items were additionally produced in fringe zones viz.

  • Iron metal and Manganese metal stores.
  • Carbonatite stores in Swat and Malakand.
  • Fluorite stores and Fluorite rock in Malakand.
  • Nepheline Syenite and Sodalite Syenite in Swat.
  • Wolfram minerals in Mansehra.
  • Soapstone and Talc stores in Abbotabad.

Magnesium-loaded transmissions from rocks being granitized, changed the lime stones to Soapstone or Talc as a reaction to natural conditions, virtue of the radiations and limestones, defenselessness to transformation, temperature and pressing factor conditions, length of transformative scene and so forth and so on