Marble Stone in Iran

Joshghan Marble (Shahyadi)
Seng Joshghan and Shahiyadi are famous marble types, which are noted for their transparency and light color. These two stones quarrying is the same with different works and they have minor differences, so that sometimes they are classified in the same category. Premium sparkling stone with white color and impurity limited traces is considered the most expensive type.
Shahadi marble is also known for its light background and small black grains on the surface of the stone, which is the reason why this stone was used in the Azadi Tower (former Shahyad). It is usually cut into 40 lengths or 40 x 40 cm dimensions, and due to the presence of open limestone veins, it is not produced in large sizes. Due to the presence of these impurity streaks, it is mainly used in the interior facades walls and is less used in floor carpets, especially in wet areas.

Salsali Marble
Salasali marble is extracted from the Khor and Biabank regions quarries in the east of Isfahan. Salasali is a popular stone that is widely used in floor carpets with a size of 40 x 40 cm, lengthwise in the body of parking lots and staircases, and even as the stairs floor due to its beauty and reasonable price.
Salsali comes in three colors: white, lilac and cream, with so-called heart stripes. The irregular red and brown streaks in it have increased this stone beauty.
Its attractive color and design have led to its widespread use in flooring, but due to its many streaks, it should not be used on the wet areas floor such as the kitchen.
Also, Khobsangan marble (Khor and Biabank) is very similar to Salsali, with a cream to dark brown background and orange veins.

Adavi Marble
Edavi marble with cream or gray background color and limited brown and orange veins and concentrated white spots is another Khor and Biabank region famous stone. Halos and white spots of cotton flower spread across the stone surface are known as its main indicator.
Due to its relatively low compressive strength and high-water absorption (almost similar to Abadeh marble), Adavi marble is mostly used for interior walls. In the factories, this stone is mainly cut into 40 lengths and dimensions of 40 x 40 cm. In general, due to its not so beautiful design and character and ordinary charm, mostly due to the very reasonable price, it is also used in the carpet residential spaces floor.

Bajestan Marble
Bajestan marble quarries are located in the south of Razavi Khorasan province. This stone has a bright red or pink color with a color and waves play, where the lines and waves are bolder than the background color. The pink veins presence on the stone surface has increased its beauty. In weaker stone types, usually white halos can also be seen.
Bajestan marble is one of the most widely used marbles in the country for decoration, internal walls and stairs due to its high beauty and reasonable price. The important point is that there is this stone possibility becoming pale due to strong sun, especially in darker types.

Gaveshan Kurdistan Marble
Gavshan marble is a beautiful stone with red tonnage that is extracted from the quarries around Gavshan village near Sanandaj (nowadays it is usually available in limited form). The ruby red color background with fine and thick black lines and white halos makes it attractive. In addition to its beauty, this stone has good strength and due to its special color, it is very suitable for covering the lobby floor and interior walls.

Gandomak Marble
Gandamak Shiraz marble is one of the most common marble types with a cream-wheat background color, which is known by this name because of its design similarity and color with wheat ears. Due to its high resistance and low water absorption (compared to other marbles), this stone can also be used in the building exterior.
Its design is relatively simple and beautiful and it is widely used in the form of 40 lengths and dimensions up to 60×60 in staircases and flooring in a simple way with an ax. This product processing is wide and it is sanded and polished to hond, ax and bush hammer. In Hund processing, in order to increase the roughness and prevent the stone surface from being slippery, the resin and maintain steps are not completely done and the final appearance looks a little uneven.

Hersin Marble
Harsin marble quarries are located in Kermanshah province. Its background color is cream to light gray and often without many streaks. Due to the simple design and lack of many patterns, the selected sort must be completely uniform and uniform in order to obtain a uniform surface.
Dense and pore-free texture, low water absorption, and proper sanding are among this stone special features. Also, this stone compressive strength is very suitable, to the extent that Harsin stone can be considered the most resistant marble in the country. Due to the mentioned features, this stone is widely used in the floors and parking lots walls, stairs and carpet floors in residential and commercial spaces. It should be noted that it is safe to use this stone in wet areas such as kitchen floors or parking lots.

Sources
Cheraghi, A. (2017), visual and specialized guide to recognizing and choosing building stones, 120 pages.