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2. Verd antique - Wikipedia

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   Verd antique is used like marble especially in interior decoration and occasionally as outdoor trim, although the masses are frequently jointed and often only small slabs can be secured. The ancient Romans quarried it especially at Casambala, near Larissa, Thessaly, in Greece. [8] This variety was known as marmor thessalicum or Thessalian marble.

3. List of quarries in the United States - Wikipedia

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   It yields late Cambrian period fossils, in the course of quarrying rock slabs for countertops and other purposes. Quasius Quarry, in Rhine, Wisconsin near the Sheboygan River, NRHP-listed. A limestone quarry and lime kilns for producing quicklime, built in 1911 and abandoned in the 1920s. [6]

4. Porphyry (geology) - Wikipedia

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   "Imperial Porphyry" from the Red Sea Mountains of Egypt A waterworn cobble of porphyry Rhyolite porphyry from Colorado; scale bar in lower left is 1 cm (0.39 in). Porphyry (/ ˈ p ɔːr f ə r i / POR-fə-ree) is any of various granites or igneous rocks with coarse-grained crystals such as feldspar or quartz dispersed in a fine-grained silicate-rich, generally aphanitic matrix or groundmass.

5. Milford pink granite - Wikipedia

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   A block of granite in 2017 from the Fletcher Granite Company. The granite is described as a light gray or light pinkish-gray to a medium, slightly pinkish or pinkish and greenish-gray biotite granite with spots from 0.2 to 0.5 inches (5.1 to 12.7 mm) across and in some cases tapering out to 1 inch (25 mm) in length. [1]

6. US labor market stable as job openings rise, hiring eases in ...

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   WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. job openings unexpectedly increased in November while hiring softened, suggesting the labor market continued to slow at a pace that probably does not require the Federal ...

7. Granite - Wikipedia

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   Granite (/ ˈ ɡ r æ n ɪ t / GRAN-it) is a coarse-grained intrusive igneous rock composed mostly of quartz, alkali feldspar, and plagioclase.It forms from magma with a high content of silica and alkali metal oxides that slowly cools and solidifies underground.