Marble

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Sarah: And then the other thing that we actually have in the Minecraft lesson that we built is marble, and it's not actually in Minecraft yet, so one of the technicians in the Earth Sciences department decided we were gonna adopt end stone and use it as marble. But, Kim, do you want to talk about how we use marble in the museum, maybe? 

Kim: So there's our rotunda. I miss our rotunda at the museum, but, yeah, that's some marble flooring that we have, and actually the central part there is sodalite, so that's part of our lapis rock, one of the components of the lapis rock. So all of that material was mined in Ontario, and I've actually been to those mines where you can have a look at them in real life and see how they were all put together. 

Sarah: So this was a make work project in the 1920s to build this beautiful part of our museum, so that is made up of marble, and you can see that, yeah, there's some different colors in the flooring, and there's some different coloring in the block as well, so that is very true.