Golden marble
Sunny Oro Light Marble
Also sold as Sunny Light Gold · Giallo Egiziano
Oro's colour at a lighter value.
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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.
Sunny Oro Light is Oro's colour with the value lifted — the same warm gold, less of it, which is the difference between a room that has gold in it and a room that has gone amber. That single change is what makes it a volume material: it runs across a whole floor plate, up the walls and through hotel corridors without the accumulated warmth becoming the subject. It also bridges the family, sitting between Sunny Menia and Sunny Oro when a scheme wants a quiet field and a stronger accent out of the same bed. Practically it is the easier grade to buy. Availability is high rather than block-selected, sills sit on the format list alongside steps, tumbled is on the finish list, and facades are on the application list — none of which is true of Oro. Same Minya beds, fewer constraints.
Sunny Oro is the same colour at full saturation, off selected blocks, at medium availability. Oro Light runs at high availability with a wider finish and format list, which is why it ends up on the large areas and Oro on the feature.
- Material
- Marble
- Colour
- Golden
- Origin
- Minya Governorate, Upper Egypt
- Availability
- High
- Finishes
- Polished, Honed, Brushed, Antique / aged, Tumbled
- Formats
- Blocks, Gangsaw slabs, Tiles, Cut-to-size, Steps and risers, Window sills and thresholds
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Samples are 10 × 10 cm as standard and go out by courier.
Photographs
Sunny Oro Light 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
Sunny Oro Light 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
Sunny Oro Light against your wall colour
Nobody buys stone on a white background. Put Sunny Oro Light 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
Sunny Oro Light, 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 Sunny Oro Light, polished. A rendered preview, not a photograph of stock — ask for a physical sample before you specify.
Specified for
Where Sunny Oro Light is used
- Interior flooring
- Wall cladding
- Hotel interiors
- Stairs
- Facades
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 Sunny Oro Light 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.
Window sills and thresholds
Sills, copings and thresholds with drip groove, polished ends and mitred returns.
Also in marble
Stones that sit alongside it
Silvia Menia
Soft neutral beige, low movement, dependable in volume.
Minya Governorate360° →
Triesta
Pale warm beige threaded with fine, quiet veining.
Suez / Eastern Desert360° →
Samaha
Warm mid beige with a fine, sandy crystal.
Minya Governorate360° →
Asked about this stone
Sunny Oro Light — questions buyers ask
Can it go on a facade?
Facades are on its application list, which is not the case for Sunny Oro. Note that a facade in this stone is a cladding job rather than a paving one — the finishes are polished, honed, brushed, antique and tumbled, with no sandblasted or bush-hammered face, and none is needed on a vertical surface.
Can it be laid alongside Sunny Oro on the same job?
That is the usual reason to buy it. It sits between Sunny Menia and Oro in tone, so the two work as field and accent out of the same Minya beds. Order both together so the tones are set against each other before cutting.
Is it consistent enough for a hotel programme?
Availability is high and it is not a selected-block grade, which is what corridors and repeated guest rooms need. Steps and sills are both on the format list, so the stair and the window details can be taken from the same stone as the floor.
What does tumbled do to it?
It rounds the arrises and pits the face, knocking the gold back to a softer, non-slip surface. It is offered on Oro Light and not on Oro, which matters if the same gold has to appear as a tumbled tile somewhere in the scheme.
Get a quote on Sunny Oro Light.
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