Rocks and Minerals: Everyday Uses | Museum of Natural and ...
Sulfur is also integral to matches, one of the most consistent ways to start a fire. Fires can also be started with flints and steel, illustrated here. Flint is a form of quartz that forms as nodules in limestones. Garnet and Talc. Garnet is a gemstone composed of metals (calcium, magnesium, iron, aluminum, and/or chromium) bonded to silica.