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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Contractor steered us to quartzite, which is identical but not stainable. [/quote]

Watch out, though. Two separate places swore up and down their "Super White" was quartzite, not marble. (Another insisted it was "white granite" and wouldn't stain at all.) Thankfully we got samples and tested before committing- all etched like crazy with all the acid samples we tried (lemon juice, vinegar, wine, etc). It was also incredibly soft - tapping a mug or bottle on it left obvious opaque dings. Too bad, it was pretty.
I second the recommendation for GardenWeb. (Which is where I found out that nearly all Super White/White Fantasy is dolomitic marble, not quartzite.)[/quote]

We are in the process of picking a counter for our bathroom and I have been testing a sample of Super White and a sample of marble.  The marble is easily staining and etching and nothing has stained or etched the Super White (including balsamic vinegar).  I was able to scratch it with a piece of granite but the scratch isn't very noticeable.  [/quote]

There's all kinds of stuff out there getting labeled Super White, so you may have found actual quartzite. Odd that granite scratched it, though. Try running the edge of the sample along a glass bottle. Granite or quartzite will scratch the glass, marble will not. We had an actual quartzite sample in addition to the alleged-quartzite Super White and their performances on the scratch tests (as well as when I tried dinging them with a mug) were very obviously different.[/quote]

The place where we got it thought that the granite didn't scratch the actual stone but probably the polish.  So do you think if this sample was actual quartzite that we will be safe with another slab that looks the same from the same place?[/quote]

18:33 here. I found the discussion PP mentioned on GardenWeb absolutely fascinating. One of the participants (the OP, right?) was a geologist, and she spotted an imposter. That said, I didn't get the impression that *most* of the slabs billed as quartzite were actually marble.

I have long thought that the superficial scratches that develop on my quartzite, visible only with close attention and direct light, were actually scratches in the layer of polish or resin applied to the top of our stone. [/quote]

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