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Super White
Marble · Brazil
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GEOLOGICAL REFERENCE REGIONBrazil
Espírito Santo · Araçuaí belt
-19.36°, -40.31° · View on globe ↗What makes it distinct
The industry's most useful naming lesson: quartz pockets do not make the whole slab quartzite.
Selection & use
Use petrography and multi-point testing rather than one scratch test.
Baths and kitchens whose owners accept marble-family behavior
Can etch despite being marketed as quartzite.
Geology & trade names
Dolomitic marble frequently sold as quartzite
Super White · Calacatta Super White
Calacatta Super White is a visual marketing extension used in North America. It does not make the stone Italian Calacatta or prove true quartzite geology.