Rockhounding Picasso Marble

In some cases new materials are discovered purely by accident by a rockhound just being a rockhound.

Rockhounding picasso marble.

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. Bold brush strokes of color. Gypsum sand near knolls tooele county. Bixbyite rutile and amethyst crystals near marysvale piute county.

May 01 2008 03 09 pm. This gorgeous picasso stone is a type of marble and is found in northern new mexico. It was really pretty. I saw some picasso marble in a rock shop.

This stone is very aptly named because it looks like brush strokes of browns blacks and greys on the surface of the stone. Oolitic sand on stansbury island tooele 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. While we won t be able to placate him in that way we ll definitely take him out.

A late paleozoic limestone and fluids have filled some of the small fractures creating a beautiful rock marketed as picasso limestone. Large number of pages viewed. I ve had the opportunity to visit this site a few times in the last two years. Rainmaker 65 198 carol judd.

New star real estate vernal ut vernal utah real estate. Picasso marble is also called picasso stone or picasso jasper. 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. I couldn t find a very good picture online yet.

Obsidian in the black rock desert millard county onyx near mount nebo juab county. Last year a new variation of picasso marble was discovered by a rock dealer out on a hunting trip. May 07 2008 09 34 am. Birdseye marble in the manti la sal national forest utah county.

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. 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. 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. I just wrote a blog about utah picasso marble.

Dugway geode beds juab county. Here you can see the a grade stone with its pink and yellow windows.