Vermont Green Marble

The museum is located in a wing of one of the former vermont marble company buildings.

Vermont green marble.

Rmg stone pob 807 castleton vt 05735 phone 802 468 5636 fax 802 468 8968. Vermont verde antique is a dark green serpentine stone quarried in the green mountains of vermont. Additional names of vermont green marble include. Welcome to the vermont marble museum the largest marble exhibit in the world and a great source of pride for generations.

What few people know is that hundreds of feet under the earths top layer deep inside the same quarry walls we extracted marble from there is a sophisticated marble factory that includes 2 gang saws a monowire to cut thick slabs and cubic. Typical slab sizes are. Marble is an important natural resource and has been a long standing industry in vermont. 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.

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. It can be used in many areas for construction stone ornamental stone. 104 108 x 54 62 also available in 3 4 and 1 1 4 thick polished or honed. Vt royal danby marble slabs.

Marble is one of the state rocks of vermont. 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. 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. Vermont verde antique marble verde cavendish marble.

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 green marble is green and from united states. 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.