blue stone

["George Graham" <georgergraham@zzzzzzzzzzz>]

Tom said ,"I'm interested in blue carving stone".
Tom,

I also have a weakness for blue carving stone, and it seems to be hard to
find.

Blue Pearl is the trade name for granite that is used for monuments, that
supposedly comes form Sweden. I'm never looked into buying it, but I've
polished, sawed, pitched and tooled 8" slabs into monuments. It has large
gray and blue crystals that have a mother of pearl reflective quality, so
that as you walk by , different facets sparkle . It is a very beautiful
stone that works well if you have good granite working skills. Trade names
are often misleading, but this stone is well named. A geologist told me that
it was really Labradorite.

Sodalite Blue is also a beautiful stone. I think it is like lapis lusi. I
gather that it used to be pretty limited, and considered a semiprecious
stone. I've found a web site of a Italian stone company that is really
promoting this stone. They have bought and are quarrying in the Andes of
South America and can deliver any size block. The pictures showed a slab of
intense blue with the mother of pear qualities. I hope someday to get some,
but by my math which is very suspect, it cost 360.oo a cubic foot. Sorry ,
but I don't have the web site for you, but you can find it.

What is maca ba? I hope someone has some experience with sodalite blue that
they can pass on.
George Graham