Color: Steatite ranges from a bluish gray to a steel
gray color.
Texture: Course to fine grain
Luster:
Silica Fabrics / Fossils:
Patina:
Heat Treatment:
Knapping: Good flaking quality for fine
grain material and moderate for courser grain material.
Distribution:
Steatite is most likely associated with the Temple Lake glaciation.
Steatite has primary outcroppings in the Gros Ventre Range, north end of
the Teton range, Wind River Range, Granite-Flat Creek, and upper Bunker
Creek in Wyoming.
Projectile point made from this material:
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