Great South Gems & Minerals

• Marble Specimens •
(Tate, Georgia)

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• Marble Specimens •
(Tate, Georgia)

marble - calcium carbonate - metamorphic rock - shining stone - marmaroso

White or Pink marble from the Georgia Marble Company mine located near the beautiful mountain town of Tate, Georgia. Marble is a calcium carbonate. It is a metamorphic rock found in many parts of the world. Marble is composed of shells of marine organisms, changed by a metamorphic process of time, pressure, and heat. Marble is considered a metamorphosed limestone. Both the white and pink marble specimens shown here come from different locations at the same mine in Tate, Georgia.

Georgia is one of the largest producers of marble in the United States. Beautiful marble from Tate, Georgia has been used in the construction of 60% of the monuments in Washington, DC and was used in the construction of the US Capitol building, The Georgia state capitol building located in Atlanta was constructed in 1889 using marble from the Pickins County, Tate, Georgia quarry.

In addition to being a great building component and for making statuary, many new uses for calcium carbonate, marble, are being discovered regularly.

Here is a partial listing of the uses of marble. (Calcium carbonate.)

• Construction. Including builder's lime, cement, and road building.
• Paint. Used as a base or ex tender material..
• Plastics such as PVC drain pipes.
• Adhesives
• Sealants,
• Ceramic tile.
• Putty used in setting glass.
• Pharmaceutical industry.
• Swimming pools to correct PH
• Chalk for blackboards.
• Paper, to produce glossy surface.
• Toothpaste
• Fertilizer, to neutralise acidic soil conditions.
• Calcium tablets as a dietary supplement

Pure white marble is the result of metamorphism of very pure limestone. The characteristic swirls and veins of many colored marble varieties are usually due to various mineral impurities such as clay, silt, sand, iron oxides, or chert which were originally persent as grains or layers in the limestone. Marble can come in many colors, such as black, white, green, brown, pink.

The word marble derives from the Greek word marmaroso, meaning "shining stone".

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