Sinai Pearl Marble
Sinai Pearl is the third most well-known Egyptian limestone as well as it is one of the best seller stone types. Its quarries are located in the north and the south of Sinai Peninsula. The 1st quality of Triesta Marble blocks comes from the south area (far away from the conflict area).
It’s rare to find Big block 1st quality of Triesta , because many of Sinai Pearl blocks have defects.
It comes into two different colors 1) Yellowish, 2) Grey. Yellowish Triesta Marble is more widespread than Triesta Grey Marble.
Sinai Pearl Features: –
- Anti-freezing material, so it can be used both outdoor and indoor
- Most finishes can be applied on it such as:
- Polished (the most well-known).
- Honed (also well known, because it looks better when it becomes honed)
- Brushed
- Soft & hard Bush-hammered (sometimes it is accompanied by brushing after Bush-hammering it, it is used in flooring of pools, paving, cladding, etc.).
- Acid -Tumbled – Split Face – Sandblasted
- Flamed (Not all of the Triesta Marble slabs accept the flaming process, and it undergoes pore lightening process by acidulating it, to make the process of flaming more effective).
Note 1: Brushed, Acid, Bush-hammered finishes can be applied before or after cutting the slabs into tiles. But applying the finishes before cutting into tiles, is more expensive than cutting after applying the finishes, because cutting the slab into tiles before applying the finishes is less wastage. Anyway, it’s done according to the client desire.
Note 2: Honed with Tumbled finishes are the most well known
- It is used in Exteriors & interiors, walls & floors, cladding, Paving, Fountains, Pools, etc.
Testing: –
- Water Absorption: 0.20 – 0.89 By weight %
- Compressive Strength: 136.51 MPa
- Density: 2305 – 2628 kg/m3
- Flexural Strength: 13.1 – 15.7 MPa
- Weight of the m2 of 2cm T: approx. 52 kg
- Weight of the m2 of 3cm T: approx. 77 kg
Material defects and its treatment: –
- Black flowers.
- Crystals and cracks
Method of treatment: Filling the crack with resin or epoxy resin tinted to match the color of the limestone both masks the crack and gives the stone back its tensile strength.
- Some blocks contain Salts (salt deposit left behind when water evaporates, then it appears as a powdery substance on the surface).
Method of treatment: we use anti-salts on the surface that prevents salts to float onto the surface and deposit.
- Rusting (this can cause brown cracks)
Therefore the 1st quality products of Triesta Marble are more expensive.
Egyptian Marble Sinai pearl | Triesta marble
Sinai pearl marble or Triesta marble is one of the most popular kind of types of Egyptian marble and we supply it in slabs, blocks, tiles and cut to sizes in any quantity and best marble quality
You can use it as marble flooring, marble walls tiles, marble stairs, marble window sills, marble fireplaces, marble countertops, marble stairs for interiors and exteriors and best marble designs.
Triesta marble known in all countries in all over the world
In United Kingdom and Australia, they consider Triesta Limestone and they use is in Tumbled finish (Triesta Tumbled tiles) for pavers and floor
In Spain Triesta stone considered marble and they use in in bush hammered finish (Triesta bush hammered tiles and window sill)
Many other countries buy sinai marble and stone or sinai pearl limestone or sinai pearl marble or triesta limestone or triesta marble Egypt (each country name it according to the request) in slabs in polished and honed surface finish
Descriptions of Triesta Marble:-
Type: Egyptian Stone
Marble color: Grey Marble
Страна на произход: Marble quarry | Egypt
Наличност на материала: Blocks – Slabs – Tiles
Dimensions of the slabs: 265-300cm x 160-195cm
Thickness of the slabs (Availability): 15-20-30-40-50mm (up to 200mm by order)
Dimensions of the marble tiles (Availability): Всякакви размери
Thickness of the marble tiles for floors or walls: 10-12-15-20-30-40mm (up to 200mm by order)
Повърхностни покрития: Polished, unpolished, honed, brushed, acid, sandblasted, bush hammered, tumbled, striped, split Face marble tiles