Magnet Sticks To Granite

If you bring rare earth magnet towards it the magnet attracts.
Magnet sticks to granite. This high quality stone tile adhesive is suitable for gluing granite marble and granite tiles of 60x60 or more in size making it an ideal choice for bathroom and swimming pool areas. What is it in granite counter tops that make magnets stick to it. Having dinner this evening around the granite kitchen worktop bar. Now i am 99 sure they are not from space but he won t believe me until i can explain to him.
Oxides of iron and titanium are responsible for this. Tag tile a7 tile adhesive is used as an alternative to the use of cement materials with many outstanding advantages such as high quality with good adhesion. I humored him and did so but they actually stick. Granite can be slightly magnetic.
What type of rock sticks to magnets. Iron oxide is a fair permanent magnet ferrite magnets so if there is iron oxide in the granite it will be weakly magnetic unless the granite is laid. Probably magnetite an fe containing mineral.