‘Star Galaxy Granite’: Your Piece Of India
‘Al-Murad Granite’ is famous for providing their customers with high quality, beautiful looking worktops in both granite and quartz. These worktops are available in a wide variety of natural and more vivid shades as well as gloss and matt finishes. All of the granite worktops from ‘Al-Murad’ are incredible popular, but there is one particular type of granite that is normally found in the kitchens of the rich and famous and is in high demand.
‘Star Galaxy Granite’ comes from the Ongole quarry based in Andhra Pradesh in south India, the granite blocks are extracted from the rock and cut into huge blocks by state of the art machinery, which speeds up the mining process. However the quarry itself it only small which means it cannot provide the large number of granite blocks required by the dealers. Due to the small size of the quarry ‘Star Galaxy’ blocks are becoming a lot scarcer and much more expensive. So if you happen to have these worktops in your kitchen you are very lucky indeed.
Once the blocks have been extracted they are then cut into slabs, the thickness of the slabs is dependent on the requirements of the supplier and on the granite's pricing range and workability, thicker slabs tend to be more expensive than thinner ones. These slabs are then polished to a very high shin finish to give your kitchen worktop that mesmerising ‘Star Galaxy’ look that is in such popular demand.
It is more favoured over other types of granite because ‘Star Galaxy’ is mainly black which creates a sleeker, more modern look than other types of granite, The eye catching star like pattern comes from natural mineral deposits that have been present in the rock for thousands of years. As well as this ’Star Galaxy Granite’ comes in three different gradients of colour, the first being dark black with gold toned flecks which is the most popular type and supplied by ‘Al-Murad Granite’, the second is still dark but this time it features a greenish tinge but still has the gold toned flecks and the final colour type has a whitish/black tone in the background but it still has the classic gold toned flecks.
The ‘Star Galaxy Granite’ worktops will not only give your kitchen a new lease of life with its stunning colour and array of beautiful designs, but there are also several practical aspects to having this type of granite on your work surfaces.
On the moh scale (used for measuring mineral hardness) ‘Star Galaxy Granite’ scores a strong 6.5 which means it can withstand collisions with heavy pots and pans, it is treated and sealed which makes it so heat resistant that not even a naked flame has an effect. This type of granite is sealed which means contamination and bacteria will become the least of your worries, if something is spilt on your work surface it can be easily cleaned with soap and water which will return it back to its sanitary state. ‘Star Galaxy Granite’ is very hard wearing and almost impervious to scratches which means your beautiful, shiny new worktops will make you the envy of your neighbours for years to come.