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2. Granite - Wikipedia

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   Granite is a hard stone and requires skill to carve by hand. Until the early 18th century, in the Western world, granite could be carved only by hand tools with generally poor results. A key breakthrough was the invention of steam-powered cutting and dressing tools by Alexander MacDonald of Aberdeen , inspired by seeing ancient Egyptian granite ...

3. Georgia Guidestones - Wikipedia

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   Georgia Guidestones. The Georgia Guidestones was a granite monument that stood in Elbert County, Georgia, United States, from 1980 to 2022. It was 19 feet 3 inches (5.87 m) tall and made from six granite slabs weighing a total of 237,746 pounds (107,840 kg). [1] [2][3] The monument's creators believed that there was going to be an upcoming ...

4. List of quarries in the United States - Wikipedia

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   Stone Mountain, Georgia, site of granite quarrying from the 1830s. Its granite was used in the locks of the Panama Canal and in steps to the U.S. Capitol building. The mountain is known for its Confederate memorial carving started by Gutzon Borglum and for association with the Ku Klux Klan revival in 1916.

5. List of U.S. state minerals, rocks, stones and gemstones

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   A 2010 effort led by State Senator Gloria J. Romero, a Democrat from Los Angeles, sought to remove serpentine from its perch as the state's official stone. Organizations such as the Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization have supported the move as the olive green rock is a source of chrysotile , a form of asbestos that can cause mesothelioma ...

6. List of decorative stones - Wikipedia

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   The granite of the dimension-stone industry along with truly granitic rock also includes gneiss, gabbro, anorthosite and even some sedimentary rocks. Natural stone is used as architectural stone (construction, flooring, cladding, counter tops, curbing, etc.) and as raw block and monument stone for the funerary trade.

7. Coldspring (company) - Wikipedia

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   Coldspring. Coldspring is a quarrier and fabricator of granite and other natural stone and a bronze manufacturing company in the United States. [1] Coldspring serves the memorials market, the design and architectural market and distributes slabs for the residential market, industrial products, raw quarry blocks, and diamond tools. [2]