Vermont Green Marble

Vermont verde antique serpentine countertops are chosen over marble or granite countertops because serpentine has the warmth and look of marble yet is harder and less porous than many types of granite.

Vermont green marble.

The vermont marble museum or vermont marble exhibit is a museum commemorating the contributions of vermont marble and the vermont marble company located in proctor vermont united states. 104 108 x 54 62 also available in 3 4 and 1 1 4 thick polished or honed. Rmg stone pob 807 castleton vt 05735 phone 802 468 5636 fax 802 468 8968. The vermont marble trail is a driving tour along the geological marble corridor running the length of western vermont.

Typical slab sizes are. Marble is an important natural resource and has been a long standing industry in vermont. The museum is located in a wing of one of the former vermont marble company buildings. Appalachian green marble from vermont holds a consistent pattern of light green gray veins which flow like tiny trickling streams of water cascading down snow.

Verde antique marble is the commercial name for the dark green serpentine crossed by shear fractures filled with white calcite. Though the common name is marble this rock is actually a metamorphosed ultramafic hydrous magnesium silicate containing minerals similar to chlorite and talc. Greenstone stowe formation middlesex vt the rock is a dark green fine to medium grained massive greenstone mafic schist composed of chlorite albite epidote actinolite quartz and calcite. Vermont verde antique is a dark green serpentine stone quarried in the green mountains of vermont.

Welcome to the vermont marble museum the largest marble exhibit in the world and a great source of pride for generations. Through our displays exhibits galleries gift shop and grounds the vermont marble museum tells a unique story of the people and places that made up vermont s marble industry linking historical artistic and cultural. Additional names of vermont green marble include. Marble is one of the state rocks of vermont.

We are known world wide for the beautiful vermont danby marble we extract and that we quarry from the largest underground marble quarry in the world. Vt royal danby marble slabs. It can be used in many areas for construction stone ornamental stone.