ARASTONE is a company that has been dedicated to alabaster for two generations. We have our own quarries and facilities, as well as industrial premises that enable us to carry out all types of transformations and to meet the deadlines established for supplying finished pieces. Our reliability has been amply demonstrated in the many large-scale projects we have carried out to date.
The size of our quarries enables us to extract different types of stone and thus to offer the possibility of different types of alabaster.
TECHNICAL DETAILS
Alabaster
Hydrated calcium sulphate (SO4Ca - 2H2O)
Quarry
Open cast, ball-shaped stone with diameters of aproximately 40 - 150 cm
Structure
Fine grain criptocrystalline stone
Hardness
1,5 - 2,0 (Mohs)
Specific Weight
2,3 gr/cm3
Volume mass
1,93 gr/cm3
Absorption coefficient
0,20%
Porosity
0,15%
Microhardness
46 Kg/mm
The alabaster we market comes from our own quarries and facilities.