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| Introduction | |
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| All about decorative stones | |
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| Inspirational stone | |
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| A very ancient history | |
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| Taking a global view | |
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| A jungle of names | |
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| Out of the ground | |
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| The evolving Earth | |
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| Minerals-the basic building blocks | |
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| Igneous rocks | |
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| Sedimentary rocks | |
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| Fossils | |
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| Metamorphic rocks | |
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| What makes a good decorative stone? | |
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| Checklist for identifying decorative stones | |
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| The stones | |
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| Alabasters and travertines | |
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| Alabastro di Volterra | |
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| English alabaster | |
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| Egyptian alabaster | |
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| Alabastro a giaccione | |
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| Pakistan onyx marble | |
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| Mexican onyx marble | |
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| Yava onyx | |
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| Alabastro a tartaruga | |
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| Alabastro di Busca | |
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| Alabastro di Palombara | |
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| Gibraltar stone | |
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| Alabastro a pecorella | |
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| Alabastro fiorito | |
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| Travertino di Civitavecchia | |
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| Persian travertine | |
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| Travertino di Tivoli | |
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| Tartaro di Tivoli | |
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| Travertine oro | |
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| Other alabasters and travertines | |
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| White marbles | |
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| Pentelic marble | |
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| Parian marble | |
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| Thasian marble | |
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| White marbles of Tuscany | |
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| Identifying white marble - filling in the puzzle | |
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| Alabama white marble | |
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| Danby marble | |
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| Colorado Yule | |
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| White Makrana | |
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| Other white marbles | |
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| Grey and black marbles and limestones | |
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| Bardiglio | |
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| Greco scritto | |
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| Ashburton marble | |
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| Cherokee, solar grey | |
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| Proconnesian marble | |
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| Cipollino nero | |
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| Bigio antico | |
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| Nero antico, bigio morato | |
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| Ashford black marble | |
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| Irish black marble | |
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| Belgian black marble | |
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| Champlain black | |
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| Negro Marquina | |
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| Imperial black marble | |
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| Marmo Portoferraio | |
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| Grand antique, petit antique | |
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| Simulating stone - faux marble and scagliola | |
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| Portoro | |
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| Giallo e nero di Carrara | |
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| Noir St Laurent | |
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| King gold | |
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| Other grey and black marbles and limestones | |
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| Yellow and brown marbles and limestones | |
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| Giallo antic | |
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| Giallo di Siena | |
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| Breccia dorata | |
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| Giallo di Verona | |
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| Breccia nuvolata | |
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| Crema Valencia | |
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| Giallo tigrato | |
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| Breccia corallina giallastra | |
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| Vratza | |
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| Jerusalem stone | |
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| Crema marfil | |
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| Palombino antico | |
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| Alberese | |
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| Cotham marble | |
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| Landscapes in stone | |
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| Pietra paesina | |
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| Teakwood | |
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| Other yellow and brown marbles and limestones | |
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| Pink marbles and limestones | |
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| Marmo del Duomo | |
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| Rosa Portogallo | |
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| Etowah marble | |
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| Tennessee pink marble | |
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| Stone in a New World | |
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| Norwegian rose | |
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| Cork red marble | |
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| Breccia corallina | |
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| Broccatellone | |
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| Cottanello | |
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| Marmo carnagione | |
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| Breccia degli Appennini | |
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| Rose de Numidie | |
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| Nembro rosato | |
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| Rosa perlino | |
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| Rosso Verona | |
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| Breccia pernice | |
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| Encarnado | |
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| Adneter marmor | |
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| Rossc Montecitorio | |
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| Rojo Alicante | |
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| Other pink marbles and limestones | |
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| Red and violet marbles and limestones | |
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| Cipollino rosso, rosso brecciato | |
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| Rosso antico | |
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| Duke's red | |
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| Griotte | |
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| Rouge Languedoc, incarnat | |
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| Breche sanguine | |
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| Breccia rossa Appenninica | |
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| Belgian red marbles | |
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| Breccia pavonazza | |
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| Fior di pesco | |
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| Breccia di Settebasi, semesanto | |
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| Marmo pavonazzetto | |
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| Breccia bruna del Testaccio | |
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| Breccia di Seravezza | |
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| Fior di pesco Apuano | |
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| Other red and violet marbles and limestones | |
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| Multicolored marbles and limestones | |
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| Cipollino mandolato, Campan | |
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| Africano | |
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| Breche Benou | |
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| Breccia aurora | |
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| Sarrancolin | |
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| Portasanta | |
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| In search of ancient quarries | |
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| Breccia di Aleppo | |
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| Breche Nouvelle | |
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| Breche d'Alet | |
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| Breche Medous | |
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| Sabalgarh marble | |
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| Breccia frutticolosa | |
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| Breccia della Villa Casali | |
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| Occhio di pernice | |
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| Breccia traccagnina | |
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| Breccia capitolina | |
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| Brecha da Arrabida | |
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| Diaspro tenero di Sicilia | |
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| Breccia Dalmazio, rozalit | |
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| Other multicolored marbles and limestones | |
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| Lumachellas and other fossiliferous limestones | |
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| Lumachella nera | |
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| Vytina black | |
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| Occhio di pavone bianco | |
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| Kilkenny fossil marble | |
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| Morocco fossil black | |
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| Morocco fossil brown | |
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| Lumachella d'Egitto | |
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| Lumachella d'Abruzzo | |
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| Pakistan fossil stone | |
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| Lumachellone antico | |
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| Sussex marble | |
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| Purbeck marble | |
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| Astracane dorato | |
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| Jaisalmer marble | |
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| Astracane di Verona | |
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| Occhio di pavone | |
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| Lumachella rosea | |
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| Austrian fire marble | |
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| Tennessee cedar | |
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| Spanish broccatello | |
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| Rosone di Trapani | |
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| Rasotica | |
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| Jura marble | |
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| Lumachella di San Vitale | |
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| Chiampo | |
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| Botticino | |
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| Derbyshire fossil limestone | |
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| Frosterley marble | |
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| Madrepore marble | |
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| Stellaria | |
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| Other lumachellas and fossiliferous limestones | |
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| Green marbles, "ophicalcites" and serpentinites | |
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| Cipollino verde | |
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| Cipollino Apuano | |
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| Connemara marble, Irish green | |
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| Verde ranocchia | |
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| Verde Impruneta | |
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| Verde di Prato | |
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| Rosso Levanto | |
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| Breccia Quintilina | |
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| Cornish serpentine | |
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| Mona marble | |
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| Tinos green | |
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| Vermont verde antique | |
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| Souvenirs in stone | |
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| Verde Genova | |
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| Vert Maurin | |
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| Val d'Aosta marbles | |
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| Verde antico | |
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| Serpentines from India | |
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| Other green marbles, "ophicalcites" and serpentinites | |
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| Other metamorphic rocks | |
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| Cumbrian slate | |
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| Bekhen-stone | |
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| Pietra Braschia | |
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| Russian aventurine | |
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| Indian aventurine | |
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| Azul Macaubas | |
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| Breccia verde d'Egitto | |
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| Breccia verde di Sparta | |
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| Verde marinace | |
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| Smaragdite di Corsica | |
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| Gabbro eufotide | |
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| Kashmir white | |
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| Kinawa | |
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| Stone in the street | |
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| Verde tropicale | |
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| Other metamorphic rocks | |
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| "Porphyries" and volcanic rocks | |
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| Imperial porphyry | |
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| Porfido Trentino | |
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| Elvan | |
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| Swedish porphyry | |
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| Porfido verde antico | |
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| Cosmati pavements | |
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| Porfido serpentino nero | |
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| Granito bigio | |
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| Peperino | |
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| Lava di Borghetto | |
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| Obsidian | |
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| Pietre del Vesuvio | |
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| Other "porphyries" and volcanic rocks | |
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| Granites and other plutonic rocks | |
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| Rubislaw granite | |
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| Barre granite | |
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| Bethel white granite | |
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| Cornish granite | |
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| Blanco perla | |
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| Rosa Baveno | |
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| Granito Sardo | |
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| Granito violetto | |
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| Granite rosso antico | |
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| Shap granite | |
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| Rosa Porrino | |
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| Red Peterhead granite | |
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| Balmoral granite | |
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| Dakota mahogany | |
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| Baltic brown | |
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| Luxullianite | |
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| Unakite | |
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| Larvikite | |
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| Marmo Misio | |
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| Granito del Foro | |
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| Orbicular granite | |
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| Granito della colonna | |
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| Granito bianco e nero | |
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| Granito verde antico | |
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| Stone in the home | |
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| Rustenburg | |
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| Granito nero antico | |
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| Nero Zimbabwe | |
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| Belfast black | |
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| Verde Ubatuba | |
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| Other plutonic rocks | |
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| Quartz and opal | |
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| Rock crystal, smoky quartz | |
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| Amethyst, citrine, rose quartz | |
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| Agate, onyx | |
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| Moss agate | |
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| Sard, carnelian | |
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| Prase, plasma and bloodstone | |
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| Chrysoprase | |
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| Ribbon jasper | |
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| Mookaite | |
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| Calcedonio di Volterra | |
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| Diaspri di Sicilia | |
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| Diaspro di Barga | |
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| Inlaid stone | |
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| Egyptian jasper | |
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| Landscape jasper | |
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| Leopardskin jasper | |
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| Ocean jasper | |
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| Tiger's eye, hawk's eye, tiger iron | |
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| Silicified wood | |
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| Precious opal | |
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| Other quartz and opal | |
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| Other decorative minerals | |
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| Jadeite jade | |
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| Nephrite jade | |
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| Bowenite | |
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| Malachite | |
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| Chrysocolla | |
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| Turquoise | |
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| Amazonite | |
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| Larimar | |
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| Sodalite, princess blue | |
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| Lapis lazuli | |
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| Labradorite | |
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| Labradorescent anorthoclase | |
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| Blue John | |
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| Fluorite | |
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| Charoite | |
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| Sugilite | |
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| Rhodochrosite | |
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| Thulite | |
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| Rhodonite | |
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| Stone for sculpture | |
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| Eudialyte | |
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| Ruby in zoisite | |
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| Steatite | |
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| Other decorative minerals | |
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| Finding out more | |
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| Index | |
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| Acknowledgments | |