Alabama Marble?

["Hugo Vega" <hugo.vega@zzzzzzzzzzz>]

Indeed, there is a lot of trash stone around the Yule quarry. If you go up
the quarry road and park just before the restricted access, there is a nice
hicking trail along the Yule creek that leads to a pile of rejects. Some of
these are good but it might be difficult to carry a piece back to your car.

Your best bet is to wait after 4pm and stop in town. At the stop sign,
you'll see "Abstract Marble" on a property with many chunks. This is Gary
Bascom who works with us. He'll be able to sell you small chunks so you'll
be sure to get good quality marble.

Now is probably the best time to visit the area as the snow is not there yet
and the Aspen trees just turned a bright yellow. It's absolutely beautiful!

Hugo Vega
Colorado Stone Quarries (Yule Marble)

-----Original Message-----
 From: Irwin Stone [irwinstone@---------]
Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2005 1:58 PM
Subject: [stone] Re: Alabama Marble?

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