It looks like a small enough piece to take to a stone yard and ask. I would have no idea if it is even natural stone or quartz.

I don't recall the name, but it looks like something we tested a sample of and which failed miserably - harissa soaked in about 1/4 inch deep (lovely, rich, orangey-red stain). Do please test this with things like mustard, blueberry, wine, ketchup, lemon juice, and other high-staining and high-etching materials that might come in contact with it before considering it for a countertop material.

It almost looks like fantasy white quartzite....

I don’t have this sample. Saw it somewhere. Until I get a chance to go to a stone yard, I figured I’d ask around on Houzz. After all, this is an amazing community! ;)

Looks similar to these...

@nidnay
Thank you soo much. Looks like it might be it.
What I likes about the piece that I took a picture of, was that it had depth. Is it Granite?

Nope, dolomite marble.

Marble

looks like a quartzite with large quartz deposits. I've seen slabs of similar looking pieces w/the quartzite pieces. they all have diff names depending on the stone yard.

could also be a marble/dolomite.

I can tell you this, it won't be low maintenance. all of those deposits make it prone to staining. You would have to care for this the same way you would marble. so, keep that in mind.

Cristallo White Quartzite

The Cristallo Quartzite is an extremely rare and exotic stone that originates from quarries in Brazil. ... As its name implies, the Cristallo Quartzite features a crystalline landscape of quartz deposits and sparkling specks of crystal.

such a beautiful looking stone. works perfectly w/the blues and blue/gray.

Your bathroom looks lovely!
What is your walk colour?

I’m soo in love with this stone.

I’m in the middle of a kitchen Reno.
My floors are polished porcelain, Calacatta Grey ( picture attached).

Cabinets from Ikea Bodbyn offwhite.
Might go with Bodbyn, grey bases to break up the white... especially if I go with a white counter, like this Cristallo.

Our kitchen are the pictures of just the flooring (and some upper cabinets).

Our kitchen

what do you think about doing a quartz in a gray?

comes in Charcoal too

this is White Princess (or princess white) and supposedly a granite. if you could find one w/o a lot of pattern, it might work w/your flooring

Me.....wall color is SW Silver Strand which depending on the room can look bluish or greenish. Here are pics of the way it looks in our bonus room compared to the bathroom...

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Did you take those photos @Nidnay? If so, you have a good eye for composition. Btw, I have a faucet very similar to yours, Newport Brass.

Sammy....well thank you....I did take them. I have done quite a bit of photography for quite a few years :)

@nidnay,
Wow! Beautiful! Your guest bathroom is a true show stopper.
I can’t imagine how beautiful your main bathroom must be.
Looks very luxurious.
Did you style the bathroom and bonus room yourself?
I need whatever help you had.

Me......ha.....yes did the decorating myself. Have an entire house to work on as we finished up our new build over a year ago. I admire those who can get all this done so fast (they move in, have their boxes unpacked in the first couple of days and are fully decorated within a month! That’s certainly not me...I still haven’t picked out a backsplash :). I’m the type that needs to chew on things for a while. Here’s a link to the entire house build.

@nidnay, it is evident that it works out to take time and make the right decision.
You have an eye for design.

Oh wow, your house is beautiful!!!

We need to remodel every room. We gutted the kitchen and are starting with it.

I’m not experience with design, but I know what I like once I see it...(would have preferred to have it done by a pro).

@nidnay, where did you find this beautiful sconce https://www.houzz.com/hznb/photos/1-new-build-in-process-phvw-vp~149234632

Someone told me that Cristallo (the sample i posted) is “SUPER EXPENSIVE”. I’m not sure what that is equivalent to in $ amount. I’ll have to find out.

They suggested to me Bianco Antico slabs from Brazil.

Anyone seen Bianco antico from Brazil, with a grey cabinet base and white (offwhite) uppers, with floors like mine... polished calacatta grey?

Sconces

@nidnay.
Can I ask what the cost per sq ft of the Cristallo?

How does it compare price wise with White princess, or Bianco Antico?

Would Bianco Antico look good with offwhite top cabinets, grey base?

Me......I do not remember the price of the cristallo slab (first 2 pics I posted).

What I have installed in my guest bath is Crystal Moon which looked to me like the EXACT same material as the Cristallo except was more bluish (which is the 3rd pic).

The Crystal Moon was $67 a sq ft fabricated and installed, so for that guest room the cost for the top and backsplash was $675 and an extra $75 to install the sink.

I will say though that when my fabricators saw my selection, they moaned. They did not like working with that material because it has a tendency to crumble when being cut.....all those big crystals tend to break off in chunks. I was informed that they would not be fabricating that material in any of their future jobs.

As far as comparing prices between the Cristallo and White Princess or Bianco Antico, I am not that familiar with them, so can’t comment on that. Also, each stone yard across the country can be miles apart in their pricing, so it’s difficult to say. In regard to colors complementing your cabs, each slab under the same name can be so different from one another and the only way to know for sure is to view your cabinets and counter selection side by side and preferably in your own space because of home lighting and other factors.

Selecting counters was not the most enjoyable for me....I despise lugging around samples and all the back and forth to the stone yard.

Figure roughly $100 a square for most things that look like that. And celebrate if it’s only $120 and not $150. Or super celebrate if it’s $80.

Jobs like that aren’t being quoted on a raw square foot metric any more. The required overhead for stone fabrication has gone up, to way up, since the issues with silica dangers have been prominent in the news. Wet fabrication plus respirators is beginning to be actually enforced. Plus, quartzite‘s popularity means factoring in new 1K blades ever 4-5 jobs rather than every 100 or so jobs. You’re going to want to reinforce those IKEA cabinets in a couple of select spots before dropping stone on them. It’s a bit like taking the world’s most expensive Waygu beef, and grinding it up for a cheap corner hamburger stand where they burn it and put it in a 20 cent gummy bun.

Bianco Antico (Arctic Ice) is a close match to Alaska White.