Multicolour marble
Breccia Menia Marble
Also sold as Breccia Egypt · Egyptian Breccia
Angular fragments of beige and brown set in a pale matrix.
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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.
Breccia Menia is a true breccia: angular fragments of older stone, broken, re-cemented in a pale matrix, and cut by us millions of years later. The fragments run beige into brown against the paler ground, the edges are sharp rather than blended, and nothing about the pattern repeats — there is no vein direction to follow and no consistent figure to work to. It is supplied as blocks, slabs and cut-to-size only. There is no tile programme, no sills, no mosaic, and the finishes stop at polished and honed. Availability is the real constraint: blocks come occasionally rather than continuously, which is why the record says enquire rather than naming a lead time. Treat it as a one-surface material — a bar front, a reception desk, a table top, a lift lobby, a single feature wall — and take the whole quantity out of one block.
Breccia Sinai is the other breccia we cut and the two are not interchangeable: Sinai runs cream and rust against a cooler matrix and reads the more angular of the pair, while Menia is warmer, beige into brown. Both are occasional-block materials rather than stock items.
- Material
- Marble
- Colour
- Multicolour
- Origin
- Minya Governorate, Upper Egypt
- Availability
- Low — occasional blocks, enquire
- Finishes
- Polished, Honed
- Formats
- Blocks, Gangsaw slabs, Cut-to-size
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Samples are 10 × 10 cm as standard and go out by courier.
Photographs
Breccia Menia in the yard
We are photographing this material now. Until the shoot is done, the turning slab and the close-up below are renderings, and the honest answer to “what does it actually look like” is a sample in your hand.
No photographs yet. Ask us for the current slab and block photographs of Breccia Menia — we shoot them on request, in the yard, with a scale in frame. A cut sample goes out by courier the same week.
Laid out
Breccia Menia 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
Breccia Menia against your wall colour
Nobody buys stone on a white background. Put Breccia Menia 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
Breccia Menia, 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 Breccia Menia, polished. A rendered preview, not a photograph of stock — ask for a physical sample before you specify.
Specified for
Where Breccia Menia is used
- Feature walls
- Bar fronts
- Reception desks
- Table tops
- Lift lobbies
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 beige / cream marble — typical range
| Property | Typical value | Standard |
|---|---|---|
| Bulk density | 2,600 – 2,720 kg/m³ | EN 1936 |
| Water absorption | 0.10 – 0.45 % | EN 13755 |
| Compressive strength | 70 – 110 MPa | EN 1926 |
| Flexural strength | 8 – 14 MPa | EN 12372 |
| Abrasion resistance | 20 – 26 mm | EN 14157 |
| Frost resistance | Passes 48 cycles (selected stones) | EN 12371 |
| Mohs hardness | 3 – 4 | — |
| 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 Breccia Menia 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.
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
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Asked about this stone
Breccia Menia — questions buyers ask
Can I order it in tiles?
No. Breccia Menia is cut as blocks, slabs and cut-to-size. Anything tile-sized has to come out of the cut-to-size programme, worked to your drawings and piece-marked to a setting-out plan.
Can you match a second batch next year?
Realistically, no. Blocks arrive occasionally, the fragment pattern differs from block to block, and there is no continuous production behind the name. Buy the full quantity in one order.
Polished or honed?
Those are the only two faces we produce in this stone. Polished lifts the contrast between the fragments and the matrix; honed knocks it back if the pattern is competing with something else in the room.
Is it a flooring stone?
It is not put forward as one. The applications on the record are feature walls, bar fronts, reception desks, table tops and lift lobbies, and the block supply would not carry a floor area in any case.
Get a quote on Breccia Menia.
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