What type of stone is that?
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It’s called orange honeycomb calcite. From Utah.
Is it hard to source? Expensive? You could probably make a business out of just fabricating and selling Bitcoin logos out of it!
It is unfortunately. My understanding is that it’s a stone that forms in veins near other stones and they only really dig it up incidentally while quarrying for other stuff. It does come up, but not as often as I’d like. Also to be honest I don’t love carving it. It’s fragile and requires only using angle grinders or saws. No hammer and chisel. And sanding it is rough too because of how translucent it is. It’s definitely beautiful, but I prefer working in marble…