Sugilite Slabs: Fabricating Rare Purple Manganese Stone
Sugilite is rare, mid-hard and colored by manganese. Learn what it is, how it is sold as small pieces and composites, and how to cut, back and polish it.
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Stone Fabrication News & Guides
Expert tips, how-to guides, and industry news for stone fabrication professionals. Learn about granite, marble, quartz countertop fabrication, tool maintenance, and shop management.
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Lepidolite Slabs: Working Lilac Lithium Mica Stone
Lepidolite is a lilac lithium mica with perfect cleavage. Verified mineralogy plus honest guidance on sawing, resin stabilizing, backing and polishing slabs.
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Thulite and Zoisite Slabs: Working Pink Calcium Silicate Stone
Thulite and zoisite slab guide: manganese pink colour, Mohs hardness, perfect cleavage, anyolite relief control, cutting, polishing, sealing and care.
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Prehnite Slabs: Working Translucent Green Calcium Stone
Prehnite slab guide for stone fabricators: mineralogy, Mohs hardness, cleavage and fracture, wet cutting and polishing, backlit panels, sealing and care.
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Chrysocolla Slabs: Fabricating Blue-Green Copper Stone
Chrysocolla is soft, copper-bearing and often quartz-intergrown. Learn how to identify, cut, back and polish chrysocolla slabs and panels, and where they suit.
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Larimar Slabs: Working Caribbean Blue Pectolite Stone
Larimar is blue pectolite from one Dominican region. Verified hardness, color and fading facts, plus honest fabrication guidance for slabs and small pieces.
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Troctolite: Fabricating Olivine-Rich Gabbroic Stone
A fabrication guide to troctolite, the spotted olivine and calcic plagioclase gabbroid, covering serpentinised olivine, cutting behaviour and finish selection.
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Eudialyte Slabs: Working Rare Red Zirconium Cyclosilicate
A fabrication guide to eudialyte, the rare raspberry-red cyclosilicate from alkaline intrusions: hardness, cutting, polishing and realistic applications.
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Shungite: Working Karelia's Carbon-Rich Black Stone
A fabricator guide to shungite: carbon grades, Mohs 3.5 to 4.5 hardness, blade and bond choice, dust control, polishing limits and realistic specification.
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Nuummite: Fabricating Greenland's Iridescent Ancient Stone
A fabricator guide to nuummite: amphibole mineralogy, Mohs 5.5 to 6.0 hardness, orienting for iridescence, wet cutting, polishing sequence and long-term care.
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Emery Rock: Working Corundum-Bearing Abrasive Stone
Emery rock explained for stone shops: corundum and iron oxide mineralogy, Mohs hardness, diamond tooling and pad strategy, and realistic architectural uses.
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Rodingite Slabs: Fabricating Calcium-Altered Ultramafic Stone
Rodingite slabs explained for fabricators: mineralogy, hardness spread, blade and pad choices, sourcing limits and the serpentinite asbestos question.
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Komatiite Slabs: Working Ultramafic Volcanic Stone
Komatiite is a rare high-magnesium volcanic rock with spinifex texture. What its mineralogy and alteration mean for cutting, polishing and specifying slabs.
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