It was really pretty.
Rockhounding picasso marble.
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This stone is very aptly named because it looks like brush strokes of browns blacks and greys on the surface of the stone.
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Bold brush strokes of color.
Last year a new variation of picasso marble was discovered by a rock dealer out on a hunting trip.
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It seems the couple had been rockhounding and looking for opal mound but found it claimed and so headed out to hunt for obsidian.
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.
I ve had the opportunity to visit this site a few times in the last two years.
A late paleozoic limestone and fluids have filled some of the small fractures creating a beautiful rock marketed as picasso limestone.
I just wrote a blog about utah picasso marble.
I saw some picasso marble in a rock shop.
This gorgeous picasso stone is a type of marble and is found in northern new mexico.
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Here you can see the a grade stone with its pink and yellow windows.
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.
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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.
I couldn t find a very good picture online yet.
Whereas the b grade does not have these windows and is only the background color of blue green or gray black tan.
Picasso marble is a beautiful rock and is valued for carving especially.
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Picasso marble is also called picasso stone or picasso jasper.
It s a type of marble that s actually metamorphosed limestone which is a calcium magnesium carbonate mineral.
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While we won t be able to placate him in that way we ll definitely take him out.
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.
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