Alabama Marble?

["Irwin Stone" <irwinstone@zzzzzzzzz>]

I can't say.  Virtually all the stone I sell originates from a blasting
quarry.  The Genstar / LaFarge Medford plant, located near Westminster MD,
produces a beautiful white with pink to purple marble, but only for crushed
stone & rip/rap type applications.  I have sold some small chunks (50 to 300
lbs) to local sculpters who have successfully made some very simple peices
with the stone, but it always has fractures.

I saw some very nice stone at Danby Mt in Vermont while on vacation a few
years ago.  I collected quite a few 50 -100 pound 'momento' peices from
tailing piles on the back sidde of Danby Mt, in Dorset.  I also collected a
few hunks of Vermont Verde Antique form the quarry farther north in (??)
Vermont.

It seems to me the Yule marble is about the best bet for domestic stock.  I
visited there in the late 80's, when you had to pay somebody with a good
tough jeep to get you up to the then abandoned mine.  I got a couple tailing
peices back east with me as carry-on luggage, and made a small headstone for
one of my past dogs from one peice. That was some REAL nice marble. It
worked a lot easier than Georgia, polished much nicer than Vermont.

David