Manufacturers use different types and sizes of crushed stone or other aggregate ... question of “how do I get stains out of my white quartz countertop” has no simple answer.

White quartz is flying off the shelves ... Eddie Castro, vice president of Stone and Tile World in Rockville, says quartz can range from about $65 to $135 per square foot, including fabrication ...

Florida beaches like Siesta are famed for their white, powdery ... It is almost 100 percent pure quartz crystal, with each grain of nearly identical size. Its chemical composition — silicon ...

When advertised as green granite, often times the stone is actually a green variety ... White granite is primarily composed of white feldspar and quartz, with distinctive red garnet crystals.

And at Crystal Peak, you can find several of them ... The landscape, in fact, is brimming with milky white quartz, and how long it takes to collect them is limited by how fast you can ...

They're filled with quartz — some of it like a powder, and some of it like sparkling little pebbles, in big white sacks ... into a kind of engineered stone that looks like granite and marble ...