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Green Granite - A detailed guide

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Green granite is rare in nature. Green granite could be the best material in the dimension stone industry, and World of Stones USA is giving insights on green granites, its uses, and benefits.  When customers are looking for green granite in the stone industry, the chances of misleading the buyers remain high. We already got details about  Green Marbles , which are green thanks to the inclusion of serpentine. Many retailers, in particular, are presenting green marbles and green variations of soapstone as green granite. The below illustration can help you to identify each component of greenstone varieties using handy tools. World of Stones USA wants to save its patrons from such confusions and mislabels, that can happen at any level, by giving facts about different  stone types . In our consumer awareness movement on the web, we are adding one more feather in our blog, and it is about green granites. Let’s dive deep. What Is Green Granite? When a granite rock consis...

Red Granite – A Detailed Guide

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We are amazed at the mesmerizing impacts of  White Fantasy Granite , but today, we are going to touch a real granite that is stunning to see and energetic to use in your ambiance. It is Red Granite, a vibrant variation of Granite Rocks found in nature. What Is Red Granite? When a granite rock consists of potassium feldspar predominantly, it gains pink to red shades. When the K-feldspar is getting redder than pinker, it terms as Red Granite in the construction industry or dimension stone industry. Properties of Red Granite The properties of red granite are not much different from the generic  granite  rocks, and we already learned about it before. Parameters  Values  Average Density 2.65 to 2.75 g/cm3 Compressive Strength  Above 200 MPa Viscosity near STP 3.1019 to 6.1019 Pa·s Melting Temperature (at Ambient Pressure) 1215–1260 °C (2219–2300 °F) Permeability  Primary – Poor but Secondary – Strong Sou...

8 Different Natural Stone Decking Ideas for Your Swimming Pool

The Northern Hemisphere is approaching summer at snail pace somewhere while like a tornado in most regions. The thermometer bar is getting up-n-up week-by-week. Sweltering heat pushes people to prefer outdoor living. The outdoor pool patios, garden  swimming pool decks , and backyard pool decks are favorite choices to spend summer days in most of the States. We Love Spending Hot Days on Swimming Pool Deck. Swimming pool water exerts cooling impacts on ambiance by water evaporation and absorbing heat directly in the surroundings. Swimming pools let you frequently dive in cool water to cool your body saving from heat impacts. Swimming water pool decks provide you great opportunities to place lounge chairs to lay down in your leisure moments. You can get great healing from the stresses by relaxing your mind while staring at pool water. The cooling ripples are emerging, whether from the water feature inputs or wind blowing on the surface of the water in the pool. Know Somethin...

Siltstone - A Complete Guide

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You might have heard the word Siltstone during the conversations with contractors and stone suppliers, but you are not aware of it entirely. Despite its scanty supply, Siltstone is still having great significance in the construction industry and useful in  exterior applications . Let’s learn about it in detail. What Is Siltstone: Siltstone is a fine-grained sedimentary rock predominantly (more than 2/3) consists of consolidated silt-sized particles like Coarse silt – 1/32mm (5Phi-Ø); Fine silt – 1/64mm (6Phi-Ø); Very fine silt – 1/128mm (7Phi-Ø) and used to break into thin chips, which are running roughly parallel from top to bottom. Siltstone differs from  sandstone  because of smaller pores. Siltstone differs from a shale due to missing fissility and laminations that shale stone has. Siltstone differs from the  mudstone  or  claystone  thanks to a lower proportion of clay particles in its composition. Classification of Siltstone at Geolog...

Pegmatite Rock - A Detailed Guide

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Pegmatites yield precious gemstones, rare minerals, and useful dimension stones & stone aggregates for the construction industry. World of Stones USA is going to introduce you to the untouched or lesser explored rock type on the web and brought public awareness for it. Well,  World of Stones USA  is a natural stone supplier mainly for the dimension stone industry. So, why should it take an interest in the discussion on pegmatites like gem industry rocks? It is because all pegmatite mines are not yielding only gemstones or precious minerals for the different industries. It also yields the rocks that have values in construction and dimension stone industries, after careful mining around the globe. Let’s check some facts, properties, and uses of pegmatites rocks at a glance in the current post. By definition, Pegmatite rock is holocrystalline and composed of interlocking phaneritic crystals. However, Pegmatite is a known name in the gemstone industry rather than the c...

10+ Tips to choose the Perfect Natural Stone for Your Home

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Natural stones are the blessing of Mother Nature. You bring natural beauty by using natural stones in your spaces in & outside of the home. Natural stones are soothing eyes upon looking at it, relaxing upon touching, and energizing while living with it. Of course, the right decoration and utility come with the right selection of stones. However, out of dozens of different stones types, it is confusing to choose the right type of stones in the right combination for homeowners. It is where they need expert consultancy, and we are aiming to provide the same here in our blogs. In due course, we have given you some outlines in the posts “ 12 Things to Consider When Choosing Natural Stones for Your Home ” and “ Things to Consider While Buy Natural Stones – Shopping Guide ” as well as other similar blogs. Today, we are going to give you at least 15 useful tips to select the right natural stone for your construction projects. Tip 1 – Know the Origin of Natural Stones At first glance...

Diorite Rock – A Detailed Guide

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If you are like most customers going to  buy natural stones  with any knowledge to differentiate igneous rock from the sedimentary rock, the supplier or stockiest might introduce you to diorite as granite stone. In the dimension stone industry, any rock with visible interlocking grains of feldspar, the granite is common. However, diorite is falling in  between the granite and basalt  based on the compositions and properties. Typical Diorite Altered Andesite Of course,  diorite and andesite  have the same mineral content and occur in the same areas. The difference is grain size and cooling rate during the rock formation process. Slow cooling of diorite results into coarse grain size due to large crystals formation with more ion transport.  Rapid cooling of andesite, which is forming closer to the surface, results in fine-grained textured rocks. Click here for more info

How Natural Stone is Made – A Detailed Guide

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In a sense, we use “Natural Rocks” and “Natural Stones” terms interchangeably. It is okay at a glance for common folks who know a little about natural stones or stones alone like terms and unaware of its commercial usages or geological perspectives. If you are about to make up your mind for the application of natural stones in your next construction project or idea, we hope the current post may give you a useful insight to know the natural stones and select the right natural stone products using the detailed knowledge Remember, natural rocks of all kinds are not suitable for commercial applications like in the construction of residential or commercial projects. A few and selected types of natural rocks give us natural stones to develop commercial products. Thereby, today we will focus on only commercially applicable natural stones. A Glimpse of the Formation of the Natural Rocks at Geology Perspective In simple words, natural rocks are a kind of solid lumps of various inorganic mi...

Claystone – A detailed guide

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Claystone is a cousin of siltstone and mudstone in particle size. Thereby, the formation of claystone is akin and useful like mudstone in the industry.  World of Stones USA  is giving fine clues of applications and facts about the claystone. Introduction: By definition, claystone is a clastic type of sedimentary rock. It chiefly consists of fine particles of less than 1/256mm size, which are cemented into hard rock. In general, people use mudstone, siltstone/shales, and claystone terms interchangeably. However, all are different things at geology perspectives. Let’s know the facts first. How to Distinguish Claystone? Siltstone: Shales or siltstone is containing more than half of the composition made from silt-sized particles, such as Coarse silt – 1/32mm (5Phi-Ø) Fine silt – 1/64mm (6Phi-Ø) Very fine silt – 1/128mm (7Phi-Ø) Siltstone breaks into  thin chips , which are roughly parallel from top to bottom. Claystone: Claystone is containing more than ha...

Dry Stone Walling - Need to know

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We are living in the stone age. Of course, not in a primitive era, but the advanced stone era. Now, again the dry-stone walling is trendy albeit, with the high-quality source material and highly trained professionals to give you sophisticated dry-stone walls and structures. World of Stones USA is illustrating a perfect guide to build amazing walls using modern dry-stone walling technologies and techniques. Let’s learn it. In the modern era, Dry Stone Walling is a buzz in the construction industry, particularly in hardscaping projects. The application of dry-stone walling is equally trendy, like  natural stone paving  projects. If you believe in an age-old myth that dry stone walling is good for farms and fields, you might prove wrong when you see it in the sophisticated places like outdoor patios, gardens, and façade of expensive homes. Indeed, dry stone walling trend is prevailing in the construction of a courtyard boundary and retaining wall projects in recent years. Ho...