Onyx, Wall masonry materials

Onyx in translation from Greek means "nail". Marble onyx happens different flowers and patterns, but beauty of onyx depends on its ability to pass light through the surface. Such modulations of light give to a stone special appeal and originality. Marble onyx is applied to finishing works and registration of interiors, a tile from onyx widely used in many design and architectural projects.

Onyx is marble, kaltsitovy, quartz, aragonitovy, chalcedonic, karlyuksky, Tyrolean, etc. All types of this mineral since the most ancient times and are widely used up to now in jewelry, and a tile from onyx in quality is decorative - finishing material in architecture and construction. In modern jeweler craft onyx, in the same row with lazurite, a jasper and obsidian, belongs to the second class of color stones and as raw materials goes for production of jewelry, pendents, souvenirs and so forth. In design and construction marble onyx is used.

Deposits of onyx meet rather often, but only in six countries of the planet stocks of this mineral allow to extract it in the industrial way is Turkey and Afghanistan, Pakistan and Egypt, Iran and Mexico. Despite frequent occurrence of a mineral in the nature - world reserves of onyx are limited in comparison with other facing stones. Despite it, very high - from a "jeweller" stone it passed popularity of marble onyx at designers and architects into the category of unique elite facing material.

Oniksovy blocks, sleba and tile from onyx - not only graceful and amazingly beautiful finishing material, but also the material which was very demanded now. In the long term, in connection with its limited resources it will become rather rare stone.