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Calciferous minerals were deposited in layers on ancient river and ocean beds.
These layers hardened over the years due to high pressure, giving rise to soft limestone with colors from cream to gray and blue.
It does not polish to a gloss.
It is porous and liable to stains and scratches.
Marble is the result of metamorphosis of limestone due to immense heat and pressure.
It is harder and less porous than limestone.
It takes on a good shine.
It ranges in color from pure white to pitch black to exotic colors like brilliant green, bright red and creamy yellow.
Travertine is formed through accumulation of calcite from hot springs, often classified as limestone and marble. It is usually cream or rufescent. It has holes due to water flowing through the stone. These holes are often filled with synthetic resin or cement. Maintenance is required if the holes are not filled.
The name comes from the Greek word onyx, which means fingernail.
Onyx is classified under chalcedony quartz mined in Brazil, India, California and Uruguay.
It has a fine texture and is black in color. However, it displays white bands or ribbons against a black or brown background.
It is formed in caves as stalactites and stalagmites by the slow precipitation of cold, mineral-rich water.
Onyx was very popular with the ancient Greeks and Romans.
Slate is a fine-grained metamorphic stone formed from clay, shale, and sometimes quartz.
It has a thin texture and breaks easily.
It is often split and comes in various sizes or shapes.
It can be separated into flat sheets.
It is uniform in color, available in shades such as dark to light green, mottled purple, black, gray or dark red.
Slate is characterized by a distinct cleft pattern, unless polished smooth.
Granite is formed by the gradual cooling and solidification of magma inside the earth's crust under high pressure. Minerals crystallize slowly to give granite its characteristic crystalline structure. It comes in many varieties of colors and patterns. It is available to fabricators in large slabs averaging 5'x6'. The slabs are polished to a high gloss on one side. As stone is a natural product, no two pieces are exactly the same, even if they are mined from the same quarry. Each slab is unique, no top can be replicated exactly.
If you know what you want or you are not sure which stone would you like to install in your kitchen or bathroom, visit our showroom or contact us to find the idea for the project of your dreams. We have something for you.
Our showroom showcases a large variety of granite to choose from, and with over 300+ slabs of granite at our location-inside the building and outside the stone yard to choose from, you will have no problem in finding a stone that will create the kitchen of your dreams.
Our customers have a wide variety of natural stones from all over the world to choose from. There are 100s of colors of:
