Cut River Rock.....
We would like to make it clear that we are not acquiring the stone from the beaches or river beds. The name river rock is the name used to identify stone which has natural worn edges created by the wear and grinding of millions of years.
Then where do we obtain these stones?
The river rock that we use is of glacial drift. Millions of years ago great ice fields of the ice age deposited huge bands of sand, gravel and stone. Cut River Rock is meticulously hand picked,off the belt from our huge sorter, the rest like a 1000 to one go to the waste pile. Next our stone men sort them again and the stone are hand fed into the mill where the skilled sawyers angles them just right to obtain the best possible face for a perfect building stone, so that when it is installed you can't tell that it is only the face of the stone....no it is impossible to tell..... that it is only the face of the stone and that the 6 or 8 inches of bulk stone is not there. Once through the mill they are exposed to our quality control stone man who culls them for broken and inferior stones then places tightly fitted together to insure accurate measurement. Finally, up the belt they reach the stone packer and are neatly packed in the crates so as to protect them in shipping. Very few stones are worthy of the tedious time and care involved.
Random Colours
This is a popular choice stone, rangeing from snow white, pale pine, off green, light and dark brown occasionally brick red, grays with white strip throught them and so on.
Old Homestead
Consist of many shades of gray to black, is the easiest way to describe this sandstone and slate river rock. Is that it has a distinguished characeristic that would be accomplished by an old homesteader farmer who went out back in the field and used all the handy sandstone and slate fieldstone river rock type he could find.
St. George Pink Granite
St. George New Brunswick is noted far and wide for it's rare red granite, colour varies from deep salmon to light pink making for a striking effect.
Charlotte County White/Gray Granite
Here is the common granite used in this area for centuries for foundations and ornamental from our local quarries. This same stone is in our ancient river beds. Charlotte County white/gray granite varies in light to coarse dark specks in the quartz fieldspar mix that makes up this granite.
