Moroccan Stone

Morocco ’s rich geology provides marble, fossils, and other stones that can be admired in their natural state or artistically enhanced. The soft stones of Taroudant are chiseled into rough geometrical shaped and fashioned into boxes, lamps, and inventive paperweights. The desert around Erfoud hosts quarries producing black marble once used to adorn palaces and now carved into decorative objects. Along the roadsides of the High and Middle Atlas, lie roadside stands offering natural mountain stones such as quartz, amethysts, manganese, and crystals. Morocco also is full of fossils, which enterprising merchants polish and convert into all sorts of things including bowls and tabletops.