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[quote=Anonymous]Quartzite poster back... We purchased bianco superiore from Gramaco. It was from this lot (which I think sold out a while ago): https://www.gramaco.com/product/bianco-superiore-b4645/ (Photos are not great--much prettier in person. We were skeptical until we saw it.)

Yes, I had the dolomite concern. I addressed this a few ways. First, our fabricator said that Gramaco was pretty reputable, and that if they backed it as quartzite, that was better than many other wholesalers.

Second, after getting our slabs, our fabricator cut a small test piece. Per fabricator--who I trusted, and I believe this not to be BS--the only real way to determine if it is dolomite is to see how it cuts. Apparently real quartzite is far harder for the machines to cut than is dolomite or marble. Given that the issue here is the hardness of the material, that made sense to me. Our fabricator reported that these were some of the hardest slabs that her guys had cut in some time, and thus they had good confidence that this was true quartzite.

No doubt the risk of marble/dolomite is real. We found one or two "quartzites" at other places we perhaps liked a bit more. We got on facetime with our fabricator... and she said, "yes, that's beautiful, but that's not quartzite." So we passed.

In all, we're very happy. Can't treat it like porcelain or quartz, but *far* heartier than marble. That said, we've only had for several months now, so don't have years of experience yet.

One other thing about light-colored quartzite--we really wanted a more traditional, marble look--many have very aggressive horizontal veining. Thin strikes and lots of them. We didn't love that look. So this lot was one of the few we found that was light color, real quartzite, but that didn't have the super-intense linear streaking.

Good luck searching! I'm thrilled with what we picked. If I were to do it over again, I'd definitely stay quartzite in the kitchen, but I would have gone down that road earlier so I could have monitored quartzite lots arriving at Gramaco (and elsewhere) sooner, seeing yet more options.[/quote]

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