Green granite
Ghazal Dark Granite
Also sold as Verde Ghazal Dark · Dark Green Ghazal
The near-black end of the Ghazal green.
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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.
Ghazal Dark is the deepest selection out of the Ghazal bed in the Eastern Desert — so far down the green that polished it reads black until you are standing at the surface. That is either exactly what a specification wants or exactly what it does not, and it is worth settling on a sample before an order goes in: set against a true black like Black Aswan it reads green rather than neutral, and set against Verde Ghazal it is visibly the darker of the two. It is bought as the Egyptian alternative to a dark imported granite for worktops and cladding bands, without the freight leg. Its uses stop at the building — kitchen tops, facades, cladding, monuments and stairs are listed, external paving is not, and it is cut as steps but not as kerbs or cobbles. Leathered is available alongside polished and honed.
The three Ghazal grades are one bed read at three depths: Verde Ghazal Light keeps enough pale feldspar for the green to hold at street distance, Verde Ghazal sits in the middle, and Ghazal Dark closes down to near-black. If the green is meant to be seen from outside the building, this is the wrong grade of the three.
- Material
- Granite
- Colour
- Green
- Origin
- Eastern Desert, Egypt
- Availability
- Medium
- Finishes
- Polished, Honed, Flamed, Leathered, Bush-hammered
- Formats
- Blocks, Gangsaw slabs, Tiles, Cut-to-size, Steps and risers
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Samples are 10 × 10 cm as standard and go out by courier.
Photographs
Ghazal Dark 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
Ghazal Dark 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
Ghazal Dark against your wall colour
Nobody buys stone on a white background. Put Ghazal Dark 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
Ghazal Dark, 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 Ghazal Dark, polished. A rendered preview, not a photograph of stock — ask for a physical sample before you specify.
Specified for
Where Ghazal Dark is used
- Kitchen tops
- Facades
- Wall cladding
- Monuments
- 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 Ghazal Dark 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.
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.
Aswan360° →
Bianco Halayeb
Pale grey-white granite with fine dark speckle.
Halayeb360° →
Currently unavailable
Breccia Fawakhir
Angular fragments welded into a hard, mottled ground.
Wadi Fawakhir360° →
Asked about this stone
Ghazal Dark — questions buyers ask
Will it pass as a black next to Black Aswan?
No. Side by side, Ghazal Dark reads green where Black Aswan reads neutral. If both are on one elevation, treat it as a deliberate two-tone rather than expecting them to be taken for one dark stone.
Which finish for a worktop?
Leathered is the one to ask about — it is cut in this stone, and on a ground this dark a polished surface shows water marks and fingerprints far more readily. Polished and honed are both available if the design wants the reflection.
Can it be used for external paving?
External paving is not among its listed uses, and it is not cut as kerbs or cobbles. Stairs are listed and it is supplied as steps, so external steps and cladding sit within it; for a green granite underfoot, Verde Ghazal Light is the grade that lists paving.
How much does the colour vary between slabs?
It is a selection out of the Ghazal bed rather than a quarry of its own, so how far down the green each block sits varies. For a run of cladding bands or a set of worktops, take the material out of one block and ask for photographs of the actual slabs before cutting.
Get a quote on Ghazal Dark.
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.
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