A Stone is a Stone – Right? WRONG! It May Look Like Granite but it May Be Limestone!
June 24th, 2008 categories: Community Events
The Marble Institue of America has found that scientists and commercial sellers do not always agree on what a stone should be called. When a commercial stone person gets involved they are looking at what the stone’s qualities are rather than its rue chemical makeup. A commercial stone person wants to put all the stones that have the characteristics of granite into the granite group even if it is technically limestone. So, if you have a geologist over for dinner and he tells you that your granite is actually …
