| Most of my articles have looked at the subject of | | | | because of the individual purposes that the stone |
| granite, with a view to kitchen worktops. In this | | | | will be used for; some granite is used for building |
| article I will be taking a deeper look at granite as | | | | interior designs and requires a much more careful |
| a type of stone / rock, where it comes from and | | | | approach, as the rock needs to be cut into slabs |
| how it is formed. | | | | once mined, whereas other granite is used in |
| Granite can be an igneous rock or metamorphic | | | | cementing and such the requirement to take care |
| rock. Igneous rock is basically rock that has | | | | not to break when mining is not so important. |
| melted due to being deep inside the earth, turned | | | | Found in a wide range of colours from black to |
| into magma and then cooled, whereas | | | | almost white, this stone has become extremely |
| metamorphic rock occurs when the plates inside | | | | popular within the building trade for many differing |
| the earths crust push down on igneous rock, | | | | products! |
| sedimentary rock and other already formed | | | | Granite by nature could never actually be pure |
| metamorphic rock, which fuses together to form | | | | white, or probably pure black for that matter, as |
| new unique metamorphic rocks that can even | | | | it generally has grains of some kind found within, |
| contain minerals such as; quartz, amethyst, | | | | but it can be almost black in that case and with |
| emerald and gold to name a few. | | | | this colour the markings are harder to see than |
| This stone is truly magnificent as it comes in so | | | | with the lighter shades of this type of stone. |
| many variations and designs. Very dependent on | | | | It could be said that there is a colour to match all |
| the part of the world, Scientists can easily | | | | with this stone. But in my opinion, this is not |
| determine each stone's origin, literally from the | | | | absolutely true. Man made stone fills the gap |
| markings and colours found within. | | | | where granite cannot, but the beauty of granite |
| It is quarried using differing methods and this is | | | | can equally, in my opinion, never be compared! |