Ruby Red Granite From India

Ruby Red Granite From India

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Synonyms: New Rubin, Rosso New Rubin, Rosso Rubino, Rubi Red, Ruby Rot

Origin: India, Ilkal, Karnataka, West and Eastghats

Technical and physical characteristics

This stone internationally may be nominated as a granite however in the area of application of the European Standard (EN) this stone must be nominated as granite.

A fine to medium-grained, dark red granite

Granite: Granite is a common and widely occurring type of intrusive, felsic, igneous rock. Granites are usually medium to coarse grained, occasionally with some individual crystals larger than the groundmass forming a rock known as porphyry. Granites can be pink to dark gray or even black, depending on their chemistry and mineralogy.