Color: Black
Quartzite ranges from a dark charcoal gray to black.
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Distribution:
Black Quartzite has primary outcroppings along the Blackstone River of
the eastern Rocky Mountains, Alberta. It is overlain by the Banff
Formation. This is a local material.
Projectile point made from this material:
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