
Marble & Limestone
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.
| Water absorptionASTM C 97 | 0.30 % |
|---|---|
| Bulk specific gravityASTM C 97 | 2618 |
| Modulus of ruptureASTM C 99 | 2000 psi |
| Compressive strengthASTM C 170 | 13300 psi |
| Abrasion resistanceASTM C 241 | 26.4 Ha |
| Flexural strengthASTM C 880 | 1600 psi |
Typical values for this stone. Natural stone varies between beds and blocks — ask us for the current test sheet before you specify.



