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Did You Know This About Egyptian Stones?

Most exported stones: Galala Creamy, Sunny, Hashma and Silvia and all granites   

Most expensive stones: Aswan Black, Sahara Brown, Alabaster, Brescia Fawakhir

Cheapest stones:  
  Marble: Fleto, Galala, Sinai Pearl, Tropical Rose, Alba Rose, Silvia, Sunny, Golden Cream, Samah, Minia.
  Granite: Hoody Dark & Light, Ghiandone Aswan, Rosa Kali, Rosa Sinai, Rosa El Shayeb   

Most used locally:  
  Marble: Galala, Brescia Sinai, Filetto Hassana, Sinai Pearl
  Granite: Ghiandone Aswan, Ghazal Dark & Light, Karnak Gray, Rosa Kali.

Sizes in local market

Notes about stones:  
  a) Aswan is famous for its granite quarries, which come in shades ranging from pink to red, gray to black and 
      vary in texture fine-grained to heavy-grained.   
  b) Hashma sandstone has 4 different colors
  c) Filetto Salasel and Menia marble quarries have exhausted.
  d) Red Gharda, Rosa Abou Simbel, Rosso Nefertity, Rosa Vittoria (Ghiandone Vittoria), Sardo Sinai,  
       Grigio Torgoma granite quarries have exhausted. 
  e) Amberial, Gray Shulman and Ghiandone Gabalawi granites are available in limited quanity. 
  f) El Hoody is a wrong name for Hoody light and dark granite.
 
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