Item Details
Quarry Location:
Marte area, 10 km west of Mount Gambier, SouthEast of South Australia
Water Absorption:
0.39 by volume %, 0.32 by weight %
Density:
1210 Kg/m3
Compressive Strength:
Dry 3.55 MPa, Soaked 1.4 MPa
Recommended Usage:
Building stone, monuments, pool coping, sills, ornamental stone, interior, exterrior, wall, floor
Finishing Surface:
Sawn Cut, Sanded, Rockfaced, Sandblasted, Bushhammered, Tumbled, Thermalled, Natural Cleft, Weatheredge
Additional Names:
Gambier Stone,Mount Gambier Limestone,Mt Gambier Limestone,Mount Gambier Stone,Mt Gambier Stone,Mount Gambler Coralline limestone,Bruhn Limestone,Gambier Limestone
Description:
PROPERTY-- RANGE OF VALUES
Colour White Cream to pale brown
Grain Size Fine to medium, clastic
Nature Fragmental, organic limestone (fossiliferous: bryozoal).
Composition Dominantly calcite, trace dolomite.
Porosity (effective) % 36 – 44 (average % 39.9)
Porosity (total) % 63 – 59 (average % 56.4)
Saturation coefficient 0.68 – 0.74 (average 0.71)
Compressive strength Mpa
--Dry 1.08 – 5.71 (average 3.55 MPa)
--Soaked 0.7 – 2.1 (average 1.4 MPa)
Modulus of Rupture MI’53 – 58
Dry 1.0 – 2.7 1.7
Soaked 0.7 – 2.1 1.4
Young's Modulus MI’a 10
Dry 0.57 – 7.70 (average 2.2)
Soaked 0.38 – 3.69 (average 1.5)
Poisson's Ratio
Dry -0.14 – 0.64 (average 0.18)
Soaked -1.05 – 0.87 (average 0.08)
Ultrasonic Pulse Velocity m/sec --1660 – 2445 (average 2140 m/sec)
Dimensional Instability, % 0.02 – 0.06 (average %0.05 )
Coefficient of Thermal expansion, mm/mm/ C 10 3 – 6 (average 5)