The article presents the studies of selected feldspar-quartz raw materials coming from four deposits of granitoids located in the Sobótka region, i.e.: Pagórki Wschodnie, Pagórki Zachodnie, Strzeblów I, and Stary Łom. The purpose of the research was to determine the reasons for different colour after firing at 1,200°C of samples with a similar content of Fe₂O₃. The mineralogical characteristics, with particular regard to carriers of iron and other colouring elements, and shortened analysis of chemical composition of the rocks from above mentioned deposits, were conducted in 2011–2012. Those examinations did not give the unambiguous explanation of the reasons for various colours of the samples. Therefore, there was suggested to perform a full chemical analysis on the content of major and trace elements, which could confirm a hypothesis of a higher share of other than iron colouring elements in the samples, including: Mn, Ce, Th, U, and REE. Such an analysis, together with detailed observations in scanning electron microscope (SEM) coupled with measurements by microprobe (EDS) has been performed within the framework of the presented work. Although these studies have shown the presence of transition metals in the samples, however their low contents cannot explain the differentiation in colour. Lack of direct correlation between the quantity of iron present and “L” and “a” colour parameters of the samples may indicate more complex reasons of this phenomenon, i.e. different structural position, valence and coordination, in which iron cations occur in each sample, which can be simultaneously affected by ions of transition metals, rare earths and actinides, detected in the structure of minerals in individual samples. Their presence can promote the phenomenon of absorption resulting in a colour change.