Know all about Pyroxenite and Diabase properties here. All properties of rocks are important as they define the type of rock and its application. Pyroxenite and Diabase belong to Igneous Rocks.Texture of Pyroxenite is Clastic, Granular, Phaneritic, Porphyritic whereas that of Diabase is Aphanitic, Granular. Pyroxenite appears Layered, Banded, Veined and Shiny and Diabase appears Vesicular. The luster of Pyroxenite is dull to vitreous to submetallic while that of Diabase is not available. Pyroxenite is available in black to grey, bluish - grey, dark greenish - grey, green, light greenish grey colors whereas Diabase is available in dark grey to black colors. The commercial uses of Pyroxenite are cemetery markers, commemorative tablets, laboratory bench tops, jewelry, sea defence, tombstones and that of Diabase are an oil and gas reservoir, cemetery markers, commemorative tablets, laboratory bench tops, jewelry, sea defence, tombstones.