Editing Quartzite (section)

==Uses==
[[File:Tutankhamun oriental institute Chicago.jpg|thumb|left|upright=0.6|Quartzite statue of an Egyptian Pharaoh, 14th century BCE<ref name="TutStatue">{{cite web | url=https://www.lib.uchicago.edu/collex/exhibits/discovery-collection-memory-oriental-institute-100/colossal-statue-tutankhamun/ | title=The Colossal Statue of Tutankhamun | publisher=[[University of Chicago]] Library | work=Discovery, Collection, Memory: The Oriental Institute at 100 | date=2019 | accessdate=12 September 2023}}</ref>]]
[[File:Biface Stellenbosch MHNT PRE 2009.0.195.1 Global fond.jpg|thumb|Quartzite biface [[hand axe]] from [[Stellenbosch]], South Africa]]
Quartzite is a decorative stone and may be used to cover walls, as roofing tiles, as flooring, and stairsteps. Its use for countertops in kitchens is expanding rapidly. It is harder and more resistant to stains than granite. Crushed quartzite is sometimes used in road construction.<ref name=MII /> High purity quartzite is used to produce [[ferrosilicon]], industrial [[silica]] sand, [[silicon]] and [[silicon carbide]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Krukowski|first=Stanley T.|title=Industrial minerals & rocks: commodities, markets, and uses|editor=Jessica Elzea Kogel |editor2=Nikhil C. Trivedi |editor3=James M. Barker |editor4=Stanley T. Krukowski|publisher=Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration (U.S.)|year=2006|edition=7|page=842|chapter=Specialty Silica Materials|isbn=0-87335-233-5|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zNicdkuulE4C&pg=PA842}}</ref>
During the [[Paleolithic]], quartzite was used, along with [[flint]], [[quartz]], and other lithic raw materials, for making [[stone tools]].<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Seong |first1=Chuntaek |title=Quartzite and Vein Quartz as Lithic Raw Materials Reconsidered: A View from the Korean Paleolithic |journal=Asian Perspectives |date=2004 |volume=43 |issue=1 |pages=73–91 |doi=10.1353/asi.2004.0016 |url=http://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/bitstream/handle/10125/17202/AP-v43n1-73-91.pdf;sequence=1 |access-date=27 March 2022 |jstor=42928601|hdl=10125/17202 |s2cid=161224840 |hdl-access=free }}</ref> Prehistoric humans in the southeastern United States often made mortars out of quartzite stones.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Reeves |first1=Bob |title=Mortars and Pestles of the Southeastern States |journal=Central States Archaeological Journal |date=April 2018 |volume=65 |issue=2 |pages=66–69 |jstor=44715697
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