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Product Description
Pinolith or Pinolite Lapidary Rough Rock Stone Slab
This lovely and very rare material is known as Pinolith or Pinolite.
This natural unpolished semi precious stone slab is 4.85 inches by 3.1 inches and 5 mm thick.
This stone slab weighs .28 lbs.
It is precoated for you with a layer of resin for easier cutting!
This very rare material was actually first discovered in 1873 and comes from the magnesite deposit at Sunk, Hohentauern, Niedere Tauern, Styria, Austria.
It is a metamorphic rock containing magnesite as crystals in a dolomite and graphite matrix.
It is named Pinolith because the magnesite inclusions resemble pine cones in shape.
This material is a 3.5 to 4.5 hardness and this piece could be recut.
