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Very nice, you'll love it. Here's a link to a quarry, it's beautiful.

Here is a link that might be useful: Azul macaubas

Congratulations! We have a related stone, Azul Do Mar - also quartzite but with some dark colors mixed in with the blue and less white. Ours has been in for about a year and we love it. Pretty and practical - it is so easy to care for - something we need with 4 cooks in the kitchen.

Here is ours:

There is a beautiful craftsman kitchen with Azul Macaubas...cannot remember the lady's name...theresa??? I do recall she was a designer.

Azul do mar is beautiful!!! I've seen the azul macaubas kitchen -- that's actually how I found this site in the 1st place -- and forwarded to my KD. Any issues with keeping it clean and scratch-free?

No issues. Quartzite is very hard - harder than granite because quartzite is made almost entirely of quartz - its at about 7 Moh. Granites are around 6 - not quite as hard. It took our fabricator a couple of extra days because this stone is so hard. And the porosity is pretty low so nothing stains it. We do some Indian and Middle Eastern cooking and the spices like tumeric don't stain it at all. Mostly we just wipe with a damp cloth and dry - even if a spot got missed and has dried on a bit.

With your darker blues, yours might be somewhere between Theresa's and mine.

Beautiful-I have never seen this color! Congrats!

Hello to another fan of blue granite! I also have azul macaubas and can't wait to see yours, here is what ours looks like:

theresab1 That is beautiful! I've never seen granite that looks like that. It looks amazing with your cabinets. I love how it blends with the SS appliances and sink, but still retains some contrast. Really nice!

Theresab and cloudswift, thank you very very much for the drop dead gorgeous photos. I was debating blue granite for a long, long time, both because it is so amazingly expensive and because I was having a hard time visualizing whether it would work (and then what if I was wrong on such a pricey item?). It didn't help that all my friends thought I was crazy and my KD was dubious. I found this site because I was searching for photos of macaubas installed in a kitchen, and yours helped me see that yes, it would work (and would look beautiful if it turns out as nice as yours did). So, again, thank you.

Theresa, your countertop (and for that matter entire kitchen) is gorgeous! I went to the Azul Macaubas website and saw there about six different varieties of quartzite quarried there. Is yours the "Sky Pearl" it's my favorite!