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3 Reasons to Choose Marble for Your Fireplace

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  If you want a marble fireplace, then you're in good company. Marble gives any hearth a sophisticated luster that suits a variety of decorative styles. Here are three more reasons to choose marble for your home or commercial fireplace.   1. Marble comes in more colors Because  marble is a hardened sedimentary soil , it has slight surface imperfections that make it unique. Because of its natural formation, each piece of marble is unique. Different regions of the world produce common and rare variations of marble colors. White or black marble with contrasting stripes is widely used for mantels and surroundings. Dark green marble with gray, black and white stripes is also used as an accent color for fireplaces. Other colors you can choose from (if available) include ● Gray ● Pink ● Light brown ● Blue-veined ● Brown ● Jade   Marble comes in dozens of amazing color variations, including rose and black, pearl and deep burgundy. Colored marble is perfect for tile accents or stunning mant

Why Granite is Preferred for Cemetery Monuments

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  There are many types of granite found all over the earth but very few memorial quality deposits. The proper amount of molten mixing of the correct mineralogical components and then a slow cooling over many thousands of years can create deposits where memorial grade granites may be quarried.  In most cases, even the best quarries provide only 10 to 30 percent of memorial quality granite. The rest of the usable material is fabricated in to other less demanding purposes such as building cladding, counter tops and tiles and pavers.  Fractures, color imperfections and other flaws require that over 2/3 of the quarried granite must be discarded. There are three basic kinds of rocks on earth. Igneous  – This rock was first a molten substance. Granite is an igneous rock. Sedimentary  – This rock was formed from the undersea sediment of shells, bones and other such matter. Limestone is a sedimentary rock. Metamorphic  – The name of this rock implies a change of form after creation. Intense pre