Tillite and Diamictite Slabs: Working Glacial Rock
How to saw, polish and finish tillite and diamictite slabs, where hard clasts and soft matrix fight your tooling, plus realistic finish and repair strategy.
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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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Carbonatite Slabs: Fabricating Rare Igneous Carbonate
Carbonatite is a rare igneous rock built from carbonate minerals. Why it cuts and polishes like marble, what tooling to use, and how to protect the finish.
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Dolostone Slabs: Fabricating Dolomite-Rich Sedimentary Stone
Dolostone is a dolomite-rich sedimentary rock, not marble or quartzite. Acid testing, tooling, porosity, etching, sealing and honed versus polished finishes.
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Norite Slabs: Fabricating Orthopyroxene Gabbro Black Stone
Norite is orthopyroxene gabbro sold as black granite. Learn to identify it, choose blades and pads, polish a deep gloss, and stop rust staining in the field.
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Ignimbrite Slabs: Fabricating Welded Ash-Flow Stone
Ignimbrite slabs for fabricators: how welding degree drives density, porosity and strength, plus cutting, finishing, sealing and freeze-thaw exposure.
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Blueschist Slabs: Fabricating High-Pressure Metamorphic Stone
Blueschist slabs explained for fabricators: glaucophane color, foliation and cut direction, edge chipping control, finishing, sealing and honest naming caveats.
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Laterite and Ironstone: Fabricating Tropical Weathered Stone
Laterite is soft when quarried wet and hardens for good. How iron oxides, clay and porosity change your blade bond, sealing plan and application choices.
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Septarian and Concretion Slabs: Nodular Stone Surfaces
Septarian and concretion panels are soft, crack-riddled carbonate. How to stabilize, saw, fill, polish and specify them without breaking the material.
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Jet and Anthracite: Fabricating Organic Black Stone
Jet is lignite, not a mineral, and anthracite is the highest rank of coal. A fabricator's guide to cutting, bonding and protecting organic black stone.
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Blue John and Fluorite: Working Britain's Banded Stone
A fabricator's guide to Blue John fluorite: why a Mohs 4 mineral with perfect cleavage needs resin, low speeds, cool polishing and careful client advice.
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Greenschist Slabs: Working Low-Grade Metamorphic Green Stone
Greenschist for stone fabricators: index minerals, hardness spread, foliation and slab orientation, delamination risk, polishing, sealing and real uses.
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Pyroxenite Slabs: Fabricating Ultramafic Dark Stone
Pyroxenite sells as black granite but it is ultramafic, dense and low in quartz. Weight, tooling, cleavage, polishing and care for very dark, very dense slabs.
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Stromatolite Limestone Slabs: Working Fossil-Layered Stone
Stromatolitic limestone is a soft, acid-sensitive carbonate with built-in weak planes. How to identify, cut, fill, polish and specify layered dimension stone.
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