Black - Slate
Quarry Location: Villar del Rey, Badajoz
Water Absorption: 0.63 By weight-%
Density: 2730 kg/m³
Flexural Strength: 54.26 MPa
Recommended Usage: Building stone,countertops, sinks, monuments, pool coping, sills, ornamental stone, interior, exteri
Finishing Surface: Honed, Aged, Polished, Sawn Cut, Sanded, Rockfaced, Sandblasted, Bushhammered, Tumbled
Additional Names: Pizarra de Villar del Rey,Pizarra Villar del Rey, Villar del Rey Slate,Villar del Rey
It is a slate with a very smooth and homogeneous surface. There is constituted principally for sericita (70 %) and clorita (15 %). The quarry is one of the most ancient of Spain, and outcrop of slates locates on one vertical subvertical, that has more than 3000 m of longitudinal bullfight and almost 40 m of power. They belong to the unit of the Gévora, of age Devonian Superior.
General Caracteristics:
- Origin: Villar del Rey
- Province: Badajoz
- Colour: Intense black
Petrographic description: Sericite slate
Resistance to the flexion ( Mpa): 54,26
Water absorption (%) 0,13
Content(Contained) in carbonates (%) 0,68
Exhibition to the dioxide of Sulphur ( SO2) Code S1 (Without superficial change)
Test(Essay) of thermal cycle T1 (No change of aspect)