Description

The Dark Emperador is a dark brown coloured marble, with fine grain and some irregular and crossed lighter veinage. It presents some occasional signs of calcite with small dimension. The Dark Emperador is a breccial type of stone. Its main variations depend normally on the different tonalities it may have (darker or lighter), but also on the amount of calcite (more or less).

In terms of hardness, the Dark Emperador is considered a hard natural stone.




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Location

The Dark Emperador marble is mostly extracted around three distinct areas:
- around the town of Yecla, which is located in the region of Murcia – at the southeast of Spain;
- around the town of Jumilla, which is located few kilometers southwest of Yecla, still in the region of Murcia;
- around the town of Caudete, which is located north of Yecla and west of Valencia, located in the region of Valencia.

Yecla is located at about 100 kilometers north of Murcia and at about 370 kilometers southeast of the Spanish capital Madrid.