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LIMESTONE

Limestone is a sedimentary rock that mainly consisting calcite and also often consisting fossils. Limestone usually recommended as a material for floor and wall cladding, internal flooring and bathroom worktops. It does not take polish because of its natural state. It also has frost resistance capability therefore it can be used as a outside material too. You can get in touch with us for more information or get an offer.

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OUR RANGE OF LIMESTONE PRODUCTS

You can find here different types and colored limestone below.

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Jura Beige

Jura Beige

Jura Blue

Jura Blue

Moca Creme Honed

Moca Creme Honed

PURCHASING OPTIONS

Natural Stone Sale provide various standard types of purchasing options to customers. You can find details our purchasing options below. Also, please get in touch with us for more options.

Limestone as BLOCK

Block

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Limestone as SLAB

Slab

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WHAT IS LIMESTONE?

Limestone is a carbonate sedimentary rock composed mainly of calcium carbonate in the form of calcite mineral. Limestone usually form in calm, shallow warm marine waters. That type of environment is prepare all of needs for improvement of limestone. When the animals die around the area, their shells and skeletal debris accumulate and formed to become biological originated limestone in time. Some time limestone can form by directly of calcium carbonate from the edge of seas. With this way, limestone formed as chemical sedimentary rock.

USES OF LIMESTONE

Construction, architecture, floor tiles, stair treads, window sills and more...

Limestone is a stone or rock with an huge diversity of uses. This natural stone is one of the most useful rock all around the world because of it’s nature include may the most important mineral for living presences that is calcium carbonate. For this reason, there a lots usage areas of it including; chemical industry, farming industry, architecture, construction etc. And also there are some additional important uses of limestone as a raw material includes; roofing granules, flux stone, aglime, stair treads, floor tiles, animal feed filler, mine safety dust and many others.

WHERE IS LIMESTONE FOUND?

Limestone forms in different ways but the most commonly forming in warm, shallow and calm marine waters. According to this, limestone can found between 30 degrees North Latitude and 30 degrees South Latitude of the globe. Such natural resources are found in the Persian Gulf, Indian Ocean, Caribbean Seas and the Gulf of Mexico.

Nowadays biggest quarries of limestone specifically near the Great Lake’s coastlines in the U.S.A.’s state of Michigan. Limestone can be extracting in every place in the world but China, U.S.A., Russia, Japan, India, Brazil, Germany, Italy and Mexico are some of the world’s biggest limestone producers.

LIMESTONE IN TURKEY

Turkey has quite large natural stone reserves that are 40% in the world. Nowadays, limestone has wide range of usage area in almost every section of industries because of it’s nature include one of the most important mineral that is calcium carbonate. There are many limestone quarries in Turkey and some of the recent places are ; Finike(Antalya), Safranbolu, Kahramanmaraş, Ankara, Kırklareli, Diyarbakır and Isparta. They all have their own distinctive limestone in various colors.

HOW IS LIMESTONE HARVESTED?

Limestone Harvesting Process

Limestone is one of the most used natural stone all over the world as raw material in many industries. Mostly, it is used as raw material in construction business and buildings because of its natural beauty. So , did you ever wonder about how this beautiful natural stone harvested ?

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FINDING QUARRY

Before the beginning of the quarry process a research analysis is made. This investigation provides detailed data of economical viability of the process. If everything is fine, the quarry area is prepared for extraction.
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EXTRACTION PROCESS

After preparing quarry area extraction process is begins. Depending on the surface feature there are two way to extract limestone that are vertically cutting and horizontal cutting. If the surface is horizontal, cutting process are goes with horizontal cutting as larger blocks. When the surface is vertical or slightly inclined, the cutting process goes with vertically larger blocks and then cutting process begins for easy transportation.
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CUTTING PROCESS

Limestone can be prepared as a block or slab that able to change according to customer needs. Before the final cutting process a piece of limestone block which can be weight up to 500 tonnes, is thereby separated from then bench.

After all these processes of harvesting of limestone, prepared end products can finally meet their buyers in various colors.

DIFFERENT COLORS OF LIMESTONE

Limestone has quite unique colors in the nature but it can be variegated depending on components while its forming in years. According to their main components we can list them under four main titles. It’s color varieties includes; white, beige or light creamy, light grey and dark grey that able to examine below.

White Limestone

Beige Limestone

Light Grey Limestone

Dark Grey Limestone

CHEMICAL PROPERTIES OF LIMESTONE

Lime (CaO)
Silica (SiO2)
Alumina (Al2O3)
Other Oxides like Na, Mg
Loss On Ignition (LOI)
VALUE
38-42%
20-25%
2-4%
1,5 to 2,5%
30-32%

*Limestone, like marble and other calcareous stones, are referred to as acid sensitive.
**Calcareous stones are readily dissolved in acid, therefore acidic products should not be used on limestone and marbles.

PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF LIMESTONE

Porosity

Limestone has quite low porosity and it’s water absorption is less then 1%.

Variegation

Limestone can be various colored but mostly light grey or dark grey in color.

Hardness

It is quite hard for using on construction industry and its Moh’s scale is between 3 to 4.

Stability

It is beautiful natural stone and highly tough to various external factors in all seasons.

*The Great Pyramid of Giza, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World had an outside cover made entirely from limestone.

VARIETIES OF LIMESTONE

Limestone is a common name of the natural stone that has many different names. These names are based upon how the rock formed, its composition or its appearance in the nature. Here are some of the most common used names for it.

Chalk

CHALK

A soft limestone with fine texture and its usually white or light grey in color.

Coquina

COQUINA

Its usually forms on beaches that is mainly composed broken shell debris.

Fossiliferous Limestone

FOSSILIFEROUS LIMESTONE

A limestone that composed obvious and abundant fossils.

Lithographic Limestone

LITHOGRAPHIC LIMESTONE

Its a dense limestone with very fine grain size and a very smooth surface.

Oolitic Limestone

OOLITIC LIMESTONE

Its a limestone composed mainly calcium carbonate formed by shell fragment.

Travertine

TRAVERTINE

A limestone that forms evaporation precipitation. This is usually happens in a cave.

Tufa

TUFA

Its a limestone that formed by precipitation of calcium laden waters such as lake-shore or other locations.

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