Price ranges are usually starting from 10-20k USD price range regardless of the size of the artwork.

Marble is a metamorphic rock, and limestone is a sedimentary rock. Limestone is more porous than marble, which is much harder. Limestone has white, gray and black colors, while marble comes in more diverse colors, from green to very light.

Limestone is a soft rock that is relatively easy to carve and can have a wide variety of textures. It will make it easier to carve if you follow the natural direction of the bed. Check for small cracks in the stone that could break off when carving.

Marble

Marble is a translucent stone that allows light to enter and produce a soft “glow.” It also has the ability to take a very high polish. These properties make it a beautiful stone for producing sculptures. It is soft, making it easy to sculpt, and when it is fine-grained it has uniform properties in all directions.

Marble also has the advantage that, when first quarried, it is relatively soft and easy to work, refine, and polish. As the finished marble ages, it becomes harder and more durable. In contrast to limestone, marble is also extremely weather-resistant.

The most popular types of marble stone employed in sculpture are Pentelic, Parian and Carrara marble. During Classical Antiquity, the most famous type was the close-grained, golden-toned Pentelic variety, quarried at Mount Pentelicon in Attica.

If you see scratches or signs of wear on the surface of your stone, you are looking at real marble. If you scratch a knife across an inconspicuous area or on the underside of the slab and it shows little or no damage, you are looking at the more durable granite or manufactured stone.

Michelangelo was a subtractive sculptor. He used a mallet and chisels and other tools to free a figure from the marble block. Michelangelo was so dedicated to his work that he would sculpt at night by attaching candles to his hat.

Spring Temple Buddha

Marble is a rock resulting from metamorphism of sedimentary carbonate rocks, most commonly limestone or dolomite rock. Pure white marble is the result of metamorphism of a very pure (silicate-poor) limestone or dolomite protolith.

Marble is a natural stone, so it is less resistant to scratching, staining, and cracking than other countertop surfaces. It is also softer than surfaces like granite, this makes it easier to produce a wide variety of edge profiles to make distinguished looking cuts and arches.

Marble is a metamorphic rock formed when limestone is exposed to high temperatures and pressures. Marble forms under such conditions because the calcite forming the limestone recrystallises forming a denser rock consisting of roughly equigranular calcite crystals.

Marble that contains small areas of quartz is still marble and should just be called marble. Super White is one well-known example of a mislabeled stone.

Quartz is harder than marble, and that it’s surface is resistant to scratching is well known. Marble can be left square and not have weak spots because there is less surface tension. Both marble and quartz can chip on the edges as well, neither are immune to that depending on the situation.

Quartz countertops come in a seemingly endless variety of colors and patterns. To tell if you are looking at real stone or a manufactured countertop, look carefully at the pattern on the counter. Every slab of granite or marble is unique; if it is natural stone, no two areas of the stone will look exactly alike.

Countertop Surfaces Natural stones, such as granite and marble, have pores and are considered porous surfaces. This means water, other liquids, and even bacteria can enter the countertops’ surface, even causing granite to darken or marble to stain.

But the cons of marble are not to be ignored:

• porous (can stain)
• soft (can scratch, chip, and etch)
• expensive (more so than wood, laminate, or tile)

If you were to compare some porous stone flooring options, you’d discover that granite is the most impervious to absorption, and sandstone is the most porous. This also does not mean that non-porous stone options are superior to their porous counterparts.

Quartz is non-porous and therefore resistant to stains. Granite has low porosity and permeability. It is durable, but not as durable as quartz. Marble has higher porosity than granite and is particularly susceptible to damage from acidic substances such as vinegar.

Non-porous rocks have tightly fitting grains and water cannot get in. In the end all the loose sediment is lithified (stratified) and cemented (joined) into solid rock.

Like with driveways, river rock landscaping is of course ideal for pathways as well. Pathways made from river rock gravel are affordable and low maintenance. They prevent erosion, absorb water, and prevent mud. River rock gravel is great if you want your pathway to blend into your natural landscape.

What is the cheapest rock for landscaping? Crushed gravel and pea gravel tend to be the cheapest landscape rocks.

For water conservation we recommend wood or other organic mulches over rock. In high erosion areas and waterways, we recommend installing a non-woven geotextile filter fabric installed with a layer of large river rock to slow down the water, hold the soil and prevent erosion.