Know all about Pyroxenite and Latite properties here. All properties of rocks are important as they define the type of rock and its application. Pyroxenite and Latite belong to Igneous Rocks.Texture of Pyroxenite is Clastic, Granular, Phaneritic, Porphyritic whereas that of Latite is Aphanitic to Porphyritic. Pyroxenite appears Layered, Banded, Veined and Shiny and Latite appears Rough. The luster of Pyroxenite is dull to vitreous to submetallic while that of Latite is subvitreous to dull. Pyroxenite is available in black to grey, bluish - grey, dark greenish - grey, green, light greenish grey colors whereas Latite is available in black, brown, colourless, green, grey, pink, white colors. The commercial uses of Pyroxenite are cemetery markers, commemorative tablets, laboratory bench tops, jewelry, sea defence, tombstones and that of Latite are an oil and gas reservoir, as a feed additive for livestock, metallurgical flux, soil conditioner, source of magnesia (mgo).