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Hauteville
Description APPEARANCE HAUTEVILLE is a sedimentary limestone and its constitution was spread over the last 150 million years. Quarry shows different layers and depending on the layer, the appearance of stone could vary a bit particularly in the honed/polished and flamed finish. You could find in what is named: HAUTEVILLE [...] READ MORE
Tarn Silverstar
Description APPEARANCE Tarn granite (Saint Salvy) is a grey-blueyish granite which grain can be fine, medium or coarse. The Tarn Silverstar is coming from the largest quarry (20,000m3 / year); it is a coarse grain but very consistent and no black spots. It has a very low porosity which allows [...] READ MORE
Lanhelin
Description APPEARANCE LANHELIN is a blueish granite with fine grain. It is coming from different quarries giving different grades of blue : from lighter ( more greyish ) to darker (more blueish). Lanhelin has a low porosity but you may find black spots. Also it includes iron oxyde and could [...] READ MORE
Versailles Grey
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Sainte Croix
Description APPEARANCE The quarry of St. Croix is a quarry used for the mineral fillers in the industry; nevertheless, at the bottom of the quarry there are 2 masons benches : B3/4, Fontenille called, and B5, Marmont called . These stones are creamy white color uniform enough even if some [...] READ MORE
Bretigny
Description APPEARANCE Bretigny stone is a semi hard stone of a creamy uniform white. It can sometimes present veins or amber tints. The quarry is operated under several benches; stone extracted presents some layer with fine grains when other are coarse grain. Usual slab sizes are 200-240 cm x 120-140 [...] READ MORE
Saint Maximin
Description APPEARANCE It is a soft stone, extracted in Oise (north of Paris); these quarries are very old: they date back to Gallo-Roman era; but especially from Louis XIV that this stone will be used extensively in the construction of Paris; finally, it will be very stone-used under Napoleon III [...] READ MORE
Noyant
Description APPEARANCE It is a soft limestone Noyant stone is extracted from an underground quarry, opened in Maddle Ages. This quarry was used in the construction of local monuments of that time like Soissons Cathedral and building in Paris. In this underground quarry stone extracted gives a Noyant firm and [...] READ MORE