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A polished slab of Silvia Menia marble, a pale, fine-grained stone from Minya in Middle Egypt
Marble & Limestone

Silvia Menia.

A pale Menia marble with fine grain and a serene, understated character.

Finishes
  • Polished
  • Honed
Formats
  • Block
  • Slab
  • Cut to size
Category

Marble & Limestone

About this stone

Silvia carries the name of Menia — Minya, in Middle Egypt — one of the country's long-standing stone regions. It is pale, fine grained and deliberately unremarkable: where Milly Grey has weather in it, Silvia Menia is still.

That stillness is a specification, not an absence. Large areas need a stone that will not assert itself over four hundred square metres, and a fine even grain is the only thing that holds at that scale without becoming repetitive.

Use it as a field stone: floors, corridors, cladding, bathrooms, and any surface meant to carry the room rather than be the room. Polished for light, honed where footfall would dull a shine anyway.

Technical data
Water absorptionASTM C 970.30 %
Bulk specific gravityASTM C 972618
Modulus of ruptureASTM C 992000 psi
Compressive strengthASTM C 17013300 psi
Abrasion resistanceASTM C 24126.4 Ha
Flexural strengthASTM C 8801600 psi

Typical values for this stone. Natural stone varies between beds and blocks — ask us for the current test sheet before you specify.