[Rockhounds] Potomac Marble

[Earl R. Verbeek]

Two weeks ago, we (Sterling Hill Mining Museum) received, as part of a large 
mineral collection, perhaps 30 polished samples of marble.  I haven't yet 
looked at them, but if a sample of Potomac Marble is among them, it's yours.

              Cheers-   Earl Verbeek

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kathy Einwich" <einwich at datasync.com>
To: "Rockhounds List" <rockhounds at lists.drizzle.com>
Sent: Saturday, April 11, 2009 6:16 PM
Subject: [Rockhounds] Potomac Marble


>I have been searching on the web for a sample of Potomac Marble for some
> time and have been unsuccessful.  I am originally from Maryland (now 
> living
> in virtually rockless South Mississippi) and my mother was a geologist; 
> when
> she was in training at Johns Hopkins in the 1960s we used to collect 
> samples
> of this stone frequently at an outcrop at Rose's Tavern along old US 40 in
> Western Maryland, which was on the way to Hopkins' Camp Singewald in
> Washington County, MD.  I thought this rock was so interesting and
> beautiful.  I understand that part of the US Capitol was built using this
> stone.  I am not trying to play on anyone's sympathies here, but I lost
> nearly my entire rock collection (I took some of my clothes, my best rocks
> and my port!) and definitely my deceased Mom's entire rock collection, 
> which
> included the Potomac Marble samples, in Katrina over three years ago.
>
>
>
> If anyone has any good-quality Potomac Marble samples that they are 
> willing
> to part with, polished, whatever, I am willing to pay for such a thing.  I
> miss looking at them.  I realize that in order to show the real look of
> Potomac Marble, the sample might have to be fairly good-sized.
>
> Kathy E.
>
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