| Name | Soapstone |
| Texture | Non-foliated to weakly-foliated; Fine-grained |
| Composition | Talc |
| Index Minerals | Talc |
| Color | White, green or gray |
| Miscellaneous | Softer than fingernail; may be schistose in texture |
| Metamorphic Type | Hydrothermal |
| Metamorphic Grade | Low to Medium Grade |
| Parent Rock | Peridotite |
| Metamorphic Environment | Hydrothermal solutions concentrated during final stages of magma crystallization in batholiths or hot seawater solutions drawn down into subduction zones |