Granite is a readily-available, durable material. That makes it an outstanding choice for kitchen countertops, since they take a lot of daily abuse in most homes.
The conditions that let granite stone form also ensure that every piece of granite is unique. If you get a granite countertop installed, no one else will ever have one that looks exactly like yours.
What trips a lot of people up is what looks like arbitrary pricing for granite. It's all the same stuff, isn't it? Why should one piece of stone cost so much more than another piece of stone?
Understanding why granite prices vary so much requires digging into the details a little bit. First, though, let's a quick look at what granite is and how it's formed.
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Granite Stone Basics
Granite forms under the Earth's surface as molten rock or magma cools. In the
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It's a crack. Fortunately, a professional can match the color and repair cracks in granite with epoxy or resin.
Colors and Patterns
Granite stone comes in several colors and unpredictable patterns.
Certain colors are rare, such red granite, and that drives up the price. Blue granite tends to be the priciest stone sold as granite, but it's not granite. It's typically Larvikite or Anorthosite.
Granite with uniform patterns, particularly in the beige color range, tends to be cheaper. Granite with a unique pattern goes for higher prices. If you find a slab in a rare color with a unique pattern, expect it to command a premium price.
This is one spot where personal preference and style of the room play an important role. A unique slab of granite is only worth price if it fits with the style of your kitchen. Red granite with gold veining probably won't enhance a kitchen with a light, airy style.
Fabrication
It's also important to know that the granite itself is only part of your final cost. You need to get the stone cut to fit for your counters. The more complicated the cuts, the higher the
Quartzite is a non-foliated metamorphic rock. This rock is intrusive and forms when exposed to extreme amounts of heat and pressure. Over a billion years ago, there was an ocean where Kamiak Butte is. This ocean floor was made of sand, as time went on oceans receded and the exposed sand underwent processes that turned it into sandstone – or as we learned in class the process of lithification. Years later, this sandstone would morph into the quartzite that is present now.2
On the outside it looks like a stereotypical rock, but on the inside you don't really know whether it's actually a rock or a crystal. You need to be open minded and willing to find out.
Froede, Carl R. “Stone Mountain Georgia: A Creation Geologist's Perspective.” CRS Quartely 31, no. 4 (March 1995): 6.
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