Beige - Sandstone
Quarry Location: Barcelona
Water Absorption: 35.2 g/m2.s0.5
Density: 2351 Kg/m3
Flexural Strength: 9.2 MPa
Compressive Strength: 54.3 MPa
Recommended Usage: Building stone,countertops, sinks, monuments, pool coping, sills, ornamental stone, interior, exterr
Finishing Surface: Honed, Aged, Sawn Cut, Sanded, Rockfaced, Sandblasted, Bushhammered, Tumbled
Additional Names: Arenisca Bages Dorada, Beig Dorada,Bages Dorada
Bages Dorada is a detrital sedimentary rock that is classified as a quartz sandstone with calcitic matrix. Bages Dorada is brown with an equigranular grain-supported texture; composed of quartz, interstitial calcite, feldspar and fragments of metamorphic rock. The size of the grain is small/medium, which is free of cracks, pores and cavities.
Bulk Density (UNE-EN 1936:1999): 2351 Kg/m3
Open Porosity (UNE-EN 1936:2007) : 13.3 %