Rockhounding Picasso Marble

This gorgeous picasso stone is a type of marble and is found in northern new mexico.

Rockhounding picasso marble.

Obsidian in the black rock desert millard county onyx near mount nebo juab county. Bold brush strokes of color. It was really pretty. Highway 89 is one of my favorite drives in utah and i always enjoy being able to visit the three different rock shops all within a quarter mile of each other in the town of orderville as well as joe s rock shop just a mile or two north.

I couldn t find a very good picture online yet. I saw some picasso marble in a rock shop. Whereas the b grade does not have these windows and is only the background color of blue green or gray black tan. May 07 2008 09 34 am.

I just wrote a blog about utah picasso marble. This stone is very aptly named because it looks like brush strokes of browns blacks and greys on the surface of the stone. Bixbyite rutile and amethyst crystals near marysvale piute county. It seems the couple had been rockhounding and looking for opal mound but found it claimed and so headed out to hunt for obsidian.

Large number of pages viewed. Oolitic sand on stansbury island tooele county. Here you can see the a grade stone with its pink and yellow windows. A late paleozoic limestone and fluids have filled some of the small fractures creating a beautiful rock marketed as picasso limestone.

While we won t be able to placate him in that way we ll definitely take him out. Gypsum sand near knolls tooele county. May 01 2008 03 09 pm. It s a type of marble that s actually metamorphosed limestone which is a calcium magnesium carbonate mineral.

Once he brought it home he cut it to find out what he really had and he s now anxious to go back for more. Picasso marble is a beautiful rock and is valued for carving especially. Picasso marble is also called picasso stone or picasso jasper. Dugway geode beds juab county.

We are coming to utah for a vacation from ca and i have a rock obsessed 14 year old who wants to go rockhounding every day. The rockhounding books gave no info on finding it and the rock shop said it was all in a mine and therefor you can t get it yourself. Rainmaker 65 198 carol judd. I ve had the opportunity to visit this site a few times in the last two years.

We went to topaz mtn once about 5 yrs ago and liked it but with the different activities we have going on i doubt we ll have time to. In some cases new materials are discovered purely by accident by a rockhound just being a rockhound.