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Utah’s New State Stone: What is Honeycomb Calcite? Utah’s New State Stone: What is Honeycomb Calcite? and last updated 2021-03-31 23:59:41-04 HANNA, Utah — Did you know Utah has a new state stone? On March 16 The semi-precious stone was first discovered by Floyd Anderson in 1995. It is believed to have formed about 150 million years ago, “below sea level, and is now at ten thousand five hundred feet in the high Uintas,” said Rick Stott of Shamrock Mining in Hanna, Utah ...

Utah has a state vegetable, state bird, state dinosaur and even a state grass, so why not a state stone? A Utah legislator is proposing to have honeycomb calcite, found only in the high mountains of Duchesne County, designated as the official state stone.