Basalt Tiles or Diabas Tiles

[Stone Store UK]

Hi All,
Is anyone used Diabas stone in UK at all. Diabas is same as basalt volcanic stone but formed under Ocean sea bed volcanic activity. I visited the quarry, Interesting thing about it is , very very hard wearing stone at all and water absorption is almost nothing. I just wanted to know before we buy them for the project that we are going to tile. Is any one used and have they come a cross with any problem.

Thanks

Stone Store UK

 

[DHTiling]

Not come across them yet, but i like the idea of the low absorption..

 

[Topshop]

I don't know about that perticular stone (quarry) but I hear nothing but bad things about besalt in general. It seems to be often acid sensitive, color doctored, and scratches easily. I would get a sample and test it yourself with common chemicals in the home before buying into anyones marketing promises.

 

[Stone Store UK]

Dear Topshop,
Thanks for your email and advise, I heard about basals. They are generally troubled kind of stone. I had a look on Google search engine for images that shows basalt rock, also looked for diabase rock. They are different formation then each other but both of the stone are volcanic.
I ordered some samples to send out to us. we will try it for acit reaction and also see what is happening with the adhesive. After that I will share the result in here with you guys.

This is the info that I had about Diabase stone.
Diabase,
also called Dolerite, fine- to medium-grained, dark gray to black intrusive igneous rock.i It is extremely hard and tough and is commonly quarried forcrushed stone, under the name of trap. Although not popular, it makes an excellent monumental stone and is one of the dark-coloured rocks commercially known as black granite. Diabase is widespread and occurs in dikes (tabular bodies inserted in fissures), sills (tabular bodies inserted while molten between other rocks), and other relatively small, shallow bodies. Chemically and mineralogically, diabase closely resembles the volcanic rock basalt, but it is somewhat coarser and contains glass. With increase in grain size, diabase may pass into gabbro.

 

[Dan]

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