Emperador Dark Marble Slabs, Spain Brown Marble

Marble Dark Emperador is sophisticated and elegant stone. Its ophisticated structure in a combination with natural aristocratism explains its popularity and the recognition reached for the last years. This stone possesses bright color, whose purity and depth is especially demanded by designers and architects. Besides, the conquest of the stone market by Dark Emperador is connected with its huge deposits and capacities of pits completely cover the great demand.
The Dark Emperador is extracted in the area around the town of Yecla, which is located in the region of Murcia – southeast of Spain. Yecla is an area of transition between the Levante and the Meseta areas, and has been considered throughout history as a place for the convergence of cultures.
Yecla′s economy has been traditionally based on the production of grains, but also extraction and on the production of marble. The Dark Emperador marble is explored by several companies around the town of Yecla, with different exploration centres around Yecla, but also around the nearby towns of Caudete (Albacete province) and Jumilla (Murcia region). There are currently around ten quarries extracting the Dark Emperador marble. They are very large, with wide exploration fronts and extracting blocks with large dimension. It is estimated that there are large reserves of this marble for future exploration.
Extraction of marble is performed with the use of the modern equipment. Spain is one of world leaders in the field of production and processing marble. The Spanish production is distinguished by high quality, because all products are certified, and technologies of production and processing are constantly improved. It makes the stone price more attractive as well.
Also known as Imperial Brown, Brown Emperor or Dark Emperor, is, together with Crema Marfil marble, the most popular worldwide. Despite the hard competition with similar sorts, Dark Emperador occupies its own niche on the world stone market because of its excellent quality.
The Dark Emperador is a dark brown coloured marble, with fine grain and some irregular and crossed lighter veinage. It presents some occasional signs of calcite with small dimension. The Dark Emperador is a breccial type of stone. Its main variations depend normally on the different tonalities it may have (darker or lighter), but also on the amount of calcite (more or less). Brown color is given by iron and manganese carbonates. Depending on the chosen type of processing, color of Dark Emperador marble can be become deeper and more saturated with clear veining. If there is such task, it is necessary to choose polishing. In a case when it is necessary to achieve more muffled tone and even to clarify a stone you need honing.
Dark Emperador technical data:
Name
Value
Volumetric weight
2650 kg/m3
Absorption coefficient
0,40%
Compression strenght
136,47 Mpa
Bending strenght
25,98 MPa
Porosity
1,20%