Black granite
Black Aswan Granite
Also sold as Nero Aswan · Aswan Black
جرانيت أسود أسواني — الصفحة بالعربية
Dense black with a subtle grey crystal.
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Drag the slab to turn it, or use the arrow keys. Switching finish re-renders the surface — polished throws a hard specular, the abraded finishes open the surface up and knock the colour back.
Black Aswan is what the Egyptian trade reaches for when a job needs black, and the reason is in the crystal. It is dense and dark, but there is just enough fine grey through it to stop a large panel reading like painted metal, which is what a genuinely featureless black does at scale. It takes a mirror polish and holds it. The applications are the ones a black stone earns: memorials and plinths, dark cladding bands, worktops, stairs, and skirtings and trim. That last is carried by no other granite in this range, and it is real work — thin cut-to-size sections, piece-marked to a setting-out plan. Outside it is finished flamed or sandblasted, since bush-hammering is not produced in this material. Kerbs are, alongside steps, tiles and slabs. Availability is high, which is what makes a repeat memorial or trim programme a realistic thing to quote.
Gandola is the other dark granite at the same availability, and it is a brown rather than a black — near-black in a room, obviously warm against this stone. Black Aswan is the one to use where the black has to be black, and the only one of the two produced in kerbs and skirting sections.
- Material
- Granite
- Colour
- Black
- Origin
- Aswan, Upper Egypt
- Availability
- High
- Finishes
- Polished, Honed, Leathered, Flamed, Sandblasted
- Formats
- Blocks, Gangsaw slabs, Tiles, Cut-to-size, Steps and risers, Kerbs and landscape
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Samples are 10 × 10 cm as standard and go out by courier.
Photographs
Black Aswan in the yard
Photographs of our own blocks, slabs and finished work. Slab photography shows one slab — the block it came from is what you are quoted against.
Laid out
Black Aswan across a floor
A photograph shows one slab on a stand. This shows the stone tile after tile — where the pattern repeats, how far the tone drifts across a batch, and what the joint does to it. Every tile here is cut from a different part of the surface, the way material comes out of a real crate.
Indicative layout. Tone drift is deliberate — no two tiles from one batch match exactly, and a laid floor should never look like one photograph repeated.
In the room
Black Aswan against your wall colour
Nobody buys stone on a white background. Put Black Aswan on the floor, up the wall or across a worktop, set the colour it will actually sit against, and change the light — the same three questions every client asks on a site visit, answered before the sample ships.
A scene, not a render of your project: proportions are indicative and colour on a screen is never the colour in a room. Send us the drawings and we will lay the real slab sizes out against your setting-out.
Surface
Black Aswan, close up
The slab above turns; this is the same stone at the size it sits in your hand. Change the finish and it re-cuts.
Roughly a 130 mm span of Black Aswan, polished. A rendered preview, not a photograph of stock — ask for a physical sample before you specify.
Specified for
Where Black Aswan is used
- Monuments
- Kitchen tops
- Facades
- Wall cladding
- Skirtings and trim
- Stairs
Suitability depends on the finish, the thickness and the exposure. If you are specifying for external cladding, wet areas or heavy traffic, send us the detail and we will tell you what we would put in that position.
Technical
Egyptian granite — typical range
| Property | Typical value | Standard |
|---|---|---|
| Bulk density | 2,600 – 2,780 kg/m³ | EN 1936 |
| Water absorption | 0.05 – 0.40 % | EN 13755 |
| Compressive strength | 130 – 220 MPa | EN 1926 |
| Flexural strength | 10 – 18 MPa | EN 12372 |
| Abrasion resistance | 12 – 18 mm | EN 14157 |
| Frost resistance | Passes 48 cycles | EN 12371 |
| Mohs hardness | 6 – 7 | — |
| Reaction to fire | Class A1 | EN 13501-1 |
These are indicative ranges for this stone family, published so you can size a design early. They are not a test certificate. For the stone you select we arrange water absorption, flexural strength and abrasion tests at an accredited laboratory before you close a specification.
Formats
How Black Aswan is supplied
Blocks
Quarry blocks selected and squared. Typical 2.6 – 3.0 × 1.5 × 1.5 m, 18 – 30 tonnes. Sold by m³, loaded on flat rack or in-container with steel cradles.
Gangsaw slabs
Full-size slabs from the gangsaw. Marble typically 2.6 – 3.0 × 1.6 – 1.9 m in 2 cm and 3 cm; granite 2 cm and 3 cm. Bundled by block so vein sequence is preserved.
Tiles
Calibrated tiles in 30×30, 30×60, 40×40, 60×60, 60×120 cm and free length, 1.0 – 3.0 cm. Edges straight-cut or bevelled, back-mesh on request.
Cut-to-size
Worked to your drawings — worktops, vanity tops, cladding panels, mitres, cut-outs, drainage grooves, undermount polishing. Supplied piece-marked to a setting-out plan. How a cut-to-size order runs
Steps and risers
Treads with bullnose, half-bullnose or eased edge, anti-slip grooving on request, matched risers and stringers.
Kerbs and landscape
Granite kerbs, channels, edging and setts to European and Gulf highway profiles. Kerb sections and metres per container
Also in granite
Stones that sit alongside it
Red Aswan Light
The paler grade of Aswan Red — pink-leaning, easier to place.
Aswan360° →
Red Aswan Dark
The deep oxblood grade, with heavy black mineral.
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Bianco Halayeb
Pale grey-white granite with fine dark speckle.
Halayeb360° →
Asked about this stone
Black Aswan — questions buyers ask
Is it a true black?
No, and deliberately not — there is a fine grey crystal running through it. A dead-flat black reads as painted metal on a large panel; this one keeps a stone surface at that scale.
Which finish outdoors?
Flamed or sandblasted. Bush-hammering is not produced in Black Aswan, so if the specification needs the coarsest texture in a dark stone, Gandola is the one that carries it.
Can you supply small repeat sections — skirtings, trim, plinths?
Yes, and this is the only granite in the range we list skirtings and trim against. The work goes out as cut-to-size, piece-marked to your setting-out plan.
Will a second order match the first?
Availability is high, so quantity is rarely the problem, but a black shows a shift in tone more readily than a speckled stone does. On a memorial or trim programme, take the whole quantity from one block wherever the schedule allows.
Get a quote on Black Aswan.
Send the stone, the finish, the thickness and the destination port. You get a quote with an FOB and a CIF price, a lead time and photographs of the actual material.
We reply within one working day · Saturday – Thursday, 08:00 – 18:00 Cairo time · WhatsApp +20 106 926 2572
Family business since 1991 · Factory in Alexandria · 50 % in advance · 30 % on approval after production · 20 % before shipping · Reply within one working day