Rockhounding Picasso Marble

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Rockhounding picasso marble. Picasso marble is also called picasso stone or picasso jasper. In some cases new materials are discovered purely by accident by a rockhound just being a rockhound. I saw some picasso marble in a rock shop. It seems the couple had been rockhounding and looking for opal mound but found it claimed and so headed out to hunt for obsidian.

This stone is very aptly named because it looks like brush strokes of browns blacks and greys on the surface of the stone. Rainmaker 65 198 carol judd. The rockhounding books gave no info on finding it and the rock shop said it was all in a mine and therefor you can t get it yourself. Oolitic sand on stansbury island tooele county.

I couldn t find a very good picture online yet. A late paleozoic limestone and fluids have filled some of the small fractures creating a beautiful rock marketed as picasso limestone. We are coming to utah for a vacation from ca and i have a rock obsessed 14 year old who wants to go rockhounding every day. It s a type of marble that s actually metamorphosed limestone which is a calcium magnesium carbonate mineral.

Large number of pages viewed. Highway 89 is one of my favorite drives in utah and i always enjoy being able to visit the three different rock shops all within a quarter mile of each other in the town of orderville as well as joe s rock shop just a mile or two north. Last year a new variation of picasso marble was discovered by a rock dealer out on a hunting trip. Whereas the b grade does not have these windows and is only the background color of blue green or gray black tan.

While we won t be able to placate him in that way we ll definitely take him out. May 01 2008 03 09 pm. We went to topaz mtn once about 5 yrs ago and liked it but with the different activities we have going on i doubt we ll have time to. Bixbyite rutile and amethyst crystals near marysvale piute county.

I ve had the opportunity to visit this site a few times in the last two years. Here you can see the a grade stone with its pink and yellow windows. Once he brought it home he cut it to find out what he really had and he s now anxious to go back for more. Birdseye marble in the manti la sal national forest utah county.

This gorgeous picasso stone is a type of marble and is found in northern new mexico. Picasso marble is a beautiful rock and is valued for carving especially. I just wrote a blog about utah picasso marble. May 07 2008 09 34 am.

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