Nike Mind 001 'Mineral Slate' (HQ4307-300)

Nike Mind 001 — 'Mineral Slate' (HQ4307-300)

The Nike Mind 001 'Mineral Slate' is the most texturally grounded and geologically serene colorway in the Mind 001 lineup — a shoe that takes the mineral world's capacity for quiet, complex beauty and translates it into a color of extraordinary versatility and understated depth. Where 'Geode Teal' reveals the vivid, crystalline spectacle hidden within the earth, 'Mineral Slate' honors a different geological truth: the beauty of sedimentary patience, of stone that has been compressed by time into something smooth, layered, and permanently cool. Slate is among the most quietly beautiful of the natural building materials — a fine-grained metamorphic rock whose grey-blue-green surface carries the memory of the pressure and time that formed it, and whose color is among the most naturally sophisticated in the geological palette.

Key Design Details

• Silhouette: Nike Mind 001 — Nike's contemporary lifestyle silhouette designed for the intersection of considered everyday dress and athletic heritage, characterized by its clean, low-profile construction, minimal branding, and the design restraint that positions it within the quiet luxury aesthetic of the most considered contemporary fashion
• Colorway: Mineral Slate (HQ4307-300) — a deep, muted, texturally complex grey-blue-green that draws its character from slate — the fine-grained metamorphic rock that has been used in architecture, art, and everyday objects for thousands of years precisely because its color is both distinctive and endlessly compatible with other materials and colors. Mineral Slate is positioned adjacent to Geode Teal (-301) in the HQ4307 color family, sharing the blue-green-grey territory of the natural mineral world while occupying the cooler, more subdued, and more architecturally grounded end of that spectrum. It is a color that works the way the best natural materials work: not by demanding attention but by rewarding it, not by asserting its presence but by quietly enriching every visual context it enters
• Upper: Clean leather and textile construction in Mineral Slate — the Mind 001's signature minimalist upper executed in Mineral Slate, where the color's muted complexity and natural depth are expressed with the kind of quiet richness that only premium materials on a minimal surface can achieve
• Midsole: Low-profile cushioned midsole providing all-day comfort and the clean athletic silhouette that defines the Mind series' lifestyle positioning
• Outsole: Clean rubber outsole providing grip and durability for everyday urban wear
• Style Code: HQ4307-300
• Colorway: Mineral Slate
• Brand: Nike
• Gender: Unisex
• Category: Lifestyle / Contemporary / Mineral Tone / Quiet Luxury / Everyday

Sizing

Available in US Men's sizes 4–11 / Women's sizes 5.5–12.5 / EU 36–45. Nike Mind 001 fits true to size with a comfortable, medium-width fit suitable for all-day wear.

About the Nike Mind 001 'Mineral Slate'

Nike's Mind 001 has proven to be an exceptional vehicle for nature-inspired colorways that bring geological and mineralogical beauty into everyday wearable form — and nowhere is this more evident than in the HQ4307 family's mineral pair: 'Geode Teal' (-301) and 'Mineral Slate' (-300). These two colorways, adjacent in the color code system and deeply related in their geological inspiration, form the most complete and nuanced natural-world color story in the Mind 001 catalog. Geode Teal is the spectacular interior — the vivid, crystalline revelation that nature conceals within ordinary stone. Mineral Slate is the exterior — the composed, patient, architecturally beautiful surface that the geological world presents to those who learn to look at it carefully rather than waiting to be surprised. Together, they represent the full range of mineral beauty: from the hidden spectacle to the quiet permanence, from the crystalline revelation to the sedimentary calm. Mineral Slate is among the most inherently versatile colors in the Mind 001 catalog. Its grey-blue-green sits in the productive neutral zone where true neutrals — grey, beige, black, white — end and where genuinely interesting color begins. It pairs naturally with everything that grey pairs with, adds the warmth and life that beige provides, and brings the sophistication of blue without the formality of navy. It is a color that disappears into a wardrobe in the best possible sense — not because it is invisible but because it belongs everywhere, enhancing every combination it enters without competing with any element it meets. For Nike lifestyle enthusiasts, quiet luxury devotees, and anyone who wants the Mind 001's considered design philosophy in its most naturally grounded, architecturally versatile, and geologically serene expression.