Black Cloud

Deleted Deleted Member Member since January 1970 Posts: 0	Black Cloud Aug 8, 2013 13:12:32 GMT -5 kk likes this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Deleted on Aug 8, 2013 13:12:32 GMT -5 While researching slabs for a client I came across this marble called Black Cloud. It is translucent and allows the "cloud effect" to really pop!

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Black Cloud Aug 8, 2013 13:41:38 GMT -5

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Did you ask them for scraps? I have gone behind a counter top shop and picked out scraps but some of them are fenced off. When I first started hounding I went to a shop and ask a few questions. They were very nice and taught me a lot about polishing.
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Deleted Deleted Member Member since January 1970 Posts: 0	Black Cloud Aug 8, 2013 14:16:58 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Deleted on Aug 8, 2013 14:16:58 GMT -5 I am collecting scraps. I have 1000#! or MORE!! That black cloud was just an image found while researching something else.

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Black Cloud Aug 8, 2013 18:00:34 GMT -5

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I really like that Black Cloud. There is another one I like that a local company has. I think it is called Galaxy (not the black Galaxy marble) or something like that because it looks like outer space and also has some clarity giving it more depth.

Pat misunderstood rock expert Member since February 2012 Posts: 11,822	Black Cloud Aug 8, 2013 18:03:43 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Pat on Aug 8, 2013 18:03:43 GMT -5 I like it, too. Looks like an aerial photo.
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James, Black Galaxy is a "granite" that like you said has some clarity to it and little gold crystals. It is my opinion that Black Galazy and other similar "granites" are really fine grained gabbros with lots of pyroxene and the galaxy version has tiny glittering crystals of actinolite.

Thanks Pat. It almost looks like the smoke from a forest fire flaming off of distant mountain peaks? See the orange flames and white mtn tops?

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Black Cloud Aug 8, 2013 19:45:40 GMT -5

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Aug 8, 2013 19:20:20 GMT -5 @shotgunner said:

James, Black Galaxy is a "granite" that like you said has some clarity to it and little gold crystals. It is my opinion that Black Galazy and other similar "granites" are really fine grained gabbros with lots of pyroxene and the galaxy version has tiny glittering crystals of actinolite.

Thanks Pat. It almost looks like the smoke from a forest fire flaming off of distant mountain peaks? See the orange flames and white mtn tops?

The big slab I am talking about is not the black Galaxy though. This stuff is much nicer. I used black Galaxy combined with travertine to tile the office floor at my old house. I cannot recall the exact name, I just remember the name had something to do with space since that is what it looked like. If I get down that way sometime I will try to get a picture and the exact name.

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helens no longer being taken for granite Member since January 2012 Posts: 8,794	Black Cloud Aug 9, 2013 6:10:57 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by helens on Aug 9, 2013 6:10:57 GMT -5 That's a beauty. Hrm. More I look at it, I think I like it even better than my Black Marinacci. Too bad I didn't see it first:
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Black Cloud Aug 9, 2013 6:17:58 GMT -5

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Aug 8, 2013 19:45:40 GMT -5 vegasjames said:

Aug 8, 2013 19:20:20 GMT -5 @shotgunner said:

The big slab I am talking about is not the black Galaxy though. This stuff is much nicer. I used black Galaxy combined with travertine to tile the office floor at my old house. I cannot recall the exact name, I just remember the name had somethign to do with space since that is what it looked like. If I get down that way sometime I will try to get a picture and the exact name.

Metallica? My floors are Metallica and Black Galaxy (the blue is a rubber flooring mat on the black).

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vegasjames no longer being taken for granite Member since June 2013 Posts: 9,559	Black Cloud Aug 9, 2013 6:40:39 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by vegasjames on Aug 9, 2013 6:40:39 GMT -5 No, it was not metallica. Again the name had something to do with space because it looked like you were peering in to space.