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California Quarries: Cutting New History

By James Abner
  
    “We regard this as a very exceptional building stone. The grains are small and uniform in size, thus forming a very compact rock, and one exceptionally well adapted for general use as a building material”
   In reference to the San Francisco Brownstone Quarry
   Thomas Price and Son, Analytical Chemists
   San Francisco, May 8, 1896

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Engineered Stone: A Bigger Share?

By K. Schipper Although natural-stone purists will debate its quality, engineered stone is finding its way into the vocabularies of everyone from high-end designers and architects to homeowners looking to do a little remodeling...