Mt. Moriah Stone

Mt. Moriah Stone
Home Quartzite Products Quarry Contact Photos graphical		In the 1950's, builder/architect Richard Hatch utilized natural stone extensively in his construction projects. Determined to establish his own quarry, Mr. Hatch scoured the western states via ground and air, eventually locating a major deposit of quartzite on the eastern slope of Mt. Moriah, north of Baker, Nevada. He utilized this exceptional stone building numerous private and public buildings, as well as luxurious residences. In recent years, under new management, Mt. Moriah Stone has expanded to an even more extensive market. According to Richard Hose, USGS, stone similar to the Mt. Moriah Quartzite is known to occur in only a few other isolated locations in the entire world, and it is likely the largest straight-edge, natural slab and ashlar, flag deposit in the United States. Mt. Moriah Stone claims include 1200 acres of prime quartzite, layered 300 to 1500 feet deep, sufficient to supply the stone and building industry for hundreds of years. This quartzite is naturally stratified with parallel north-south micaceous seams, one running on a plane approximately 20 degrees off level, and the second angled 90 degrees from the first. This particular seaming allows the quartzite to be quarried and split into naturally dimensional flagstone, ledger, rectangular builders, mantles, benches, hearthstones and steps. In addition, this quarry produces unusually large flagstone uniquely suited for indoor/outdoor table tops, and uncommonly large slabs and blocks for feature landscape and waterfalls. Streambed sections of the claim yield naturally rounded quartzite boulders, pancake and creek ledger. According to the Gans and Miller Report (Department of Geology, Stanford University), "the occurrence of large tonnages of high-quality flaggy quartzite in the southeastern part of the northern Snake Range is unique, both in east central Nevada, and in the Western US as a whole....We know of no other reserve of flaggy mylonitic quartzite with its distinctive light color, micaceous sheen, and well-indurated texture that can compare in size, quality, or accessability with the flaggy quartzite on the SE flank of the northern Snake Range." The quartzite is split, graded, and palletized at the quarries, hauled to the stone yard where it is weighed and readied for shipment. Mt. Moriah's stone yard is twelve miles north of U.S. Highway 6 and 50, accessible by a well-maintained gravel road. (See Map under "Contact")