On Fri, 9 Aug 2013 03:54:11 -0700, "Julie Bove"
> wrote:

>
> "sf" > wrote in message
> ...
>
> > Darker granite is supposedly harder (less porous) than lighter colored
> > granite and it certainly isn't like cast iron because the slab is
> > composed of more than one type of rock. If you're banging where a
> > quartz crystal is you might chip it out - but those chips can be
> > repaired/filled with a little resin.
>
> I was looking up countertops the other day and was surprised to see that the
> quartz stuff is not slabs of quartz at all but quartz mixed with a composite
> of stuff.
>
Yes, it's ground up and reformed with a resin.

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