List of decorative stones
This is a geographical list of natural stone used for decorative purposes in construction and monumental sculpture produced in various countries.
The dimension-stone industry classifies stone based on appearance and hardness as either "granite", "marble" or "slate".
The granite of the dimension-stone industry along with truly granitic rock also includes gneiss, gabbro, anorthosite and even some sedimentary rocks.
Natural stone is used as architectural stone and as raw block and monument stone for the funerary trade. Natural stone is also used in custom stone engraving. The engraved stone can be either decorative or functional. Natural memorial stones are used as natural burial markers.
Africa
MarbleAsia
India
Pakistan
Pakistan has more than 300 kinds of marble and natural stone.Iran
Iran has more than 250 kinds of marble, travertine, onyx, granite, and limestone.Europe
France
- Limestone
- * Caen stone
- * Pierre de Comblanchien, see also Côte d'Or
- * Pierre d'Euville
- * Pierre de Jaumont
- * Tuffeau stone
Greece
- Marble
- Verde Antico
Italy
- Carrara marble
- Peperino
- Pietra serena
- Portoro Buono
- Travertine
Belgium, Norway and Poland
Poland
- Sandstone
- * Radków
- * Szczytna
- * Czaple
- * Skała
- Limestone
- * Dębnik
- * Kielce
- Granite
- * Strzegom
- * Strzelin
- Syenite, Granodiorite
- * Kośmin
- * Przedborowa
- Serpentinite
- * Nasławice
United Kingdom
- Chalk
- * Clunch
- Flint
- Granite
- * Aberdeen granite
- Limestone
- * Ancaster stone
- * Barnack rag
- * Beer stone
- * Clipsham stone
- * Corallian limestone
- * Cotswold stone
- * Forest marble
- * Frosterley Marble
- * Ketton Stone
- * Magnesian Limestone
- * Portland stone
- ** Portland Admiralty Roach
- ** Portland Bowers Basebed
- ** Portland Bowers Lynham Whitbed
- ** Portland Bowers Saunders Whitbed
- ** Portland Grove Whitbed
- ** Portland Hard Blue
- ** Portland Independent Basebed
- ** Portland Independent Bottom Whitbed
- ** Portland Independent Top Whitbed
- ** Portland New Independent Whitbed
- * Purbeck marble
- Sandstone
- * Banktop
- * Bearl
- * Blaxter
- * Catcastle
- * Corsehill
- * Corncockle
- * Dunhouse Blue
- * Dunhouse Buff
- * Hall Dale
- * Haslingden Flag
- * Heavitree stone
- * Locharbriggs
- * Ravensworth
- * Yorkstone
- Slate
- * Welsh Slate
- * Skiddaw Slate
Southeast Europe
Turkey
- Elazig Cherry
- Burdur Beige
- Emperador Dark
- Marmara marble
- Mugla White
- Noche Travertine
Middle East
Israel
- Limestone/Dolomite
- * Jerusalem stone
North America
Canada
| Stone | Location | Stone | Location | Stone | Location | Stone | Location | Stone | Location |
| Cambrian black | Quebec | Noir cambrien | Quebec | Noir taillon | Quebec | Peribonka | Quebec | Ocelot | Quebec |
| Noir taillon | Quebec | Noir cambrien | Quebec | Laurentian pink | Quebec | - | - | - | - |
| Stone | Location | Stone | Location |
| Laurentide green | Quebec | Prairie green | Quebec |
| Stone | Location | Stone | Location |
| Whistler white | British Columbia | Midnight blue | Quebec |
- Granite
| Stone | Location | Stone | Location | Stone | Location | Stone | Location | Stone | Location |
| Atlantic Black | Quebec | Spring Green | Quebec | Wild Pink | Quebec | Autumn Harmony | Quebec | Peribonka | Quebec |
| Laurentide Green | Quebec | Black Cambrian | Quebec | Birch White | Quebec | Gris St-Sébastien | Quebec | Pine Green | Ontario |
| Vermillon Pink | Ontario | Canadian Mahogany | Ontario | Tadoussac | Quebec | Dark steel | Quebec | Deer brown | Quebec |
| Ash brown | Quebec | Polychrome | Quebec | Green leaf | Quebec | Sonata | Quebec | Saguenay brown | Quebec |
| Shipshaw | Quebec | Saguenay red | Quebec | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Stone | Location | Stone | Location | Stone | Location | Stone | Location | Stone | Location |
| Riviere Pentecote | Quebec | Gallix | Quebec | Nordic river | Quebec | Betchouan-violetta | Quebec | Apica | Quebec |
| Sawene | Quebec | Stanstead grey | Quebec | Brun castor | Quebec | Alpine summer | Quebec | Boston Bar | British Columbia |
| Aqua mist | British Columbia | Robson rose | British Columbia | Sumas sky | British Columbia | Valley rose | British Columbia | Whitewater classico | British Columbia |
| Whitewater | British Columbia | Atlantic pink | Newfoundland | Cascade coral | British Columbia | Betchouan | Quebec | Riviera | Quebec |
| Rose riviere | Quebec | Ash rose | Quebec | Astra | Quebec | Winneway beige | Quebec | Dark caledonia | Quebec |
| Royal Canadian red | Manitoba | Winneway rose | Quebec | Noir nordique | Quebec | Beluro | Grandes Bergeronnes | Anticostie | Quebec |
| St Lawrence green | Quebec | Franquelin red | Quebec | Gris St Sébastien | Quebec | Newton | Quebec | Caledonia original | Quebec |
| Stanstead grey | Quebec | Charcoal grey | Quebec | Arctic white | Quebec | Snow white | Coaticook | Abbey rose | Quebec |
| Acajou | Quebec | Granville | Quebec | Caledonia nara | Quebec | New new | Quebec | Newport | Quebec |
| Caledonia | Quebec | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
- Limestone
| Stone | Location | Stone | Location | Stone | Location | Stone | Location | Stone | Location |
| Tyndall | Manitoba | Eramosa | Ontario | Adair sepia | Ontario | Ledgerock | Ontario | Arriscraft | Ontario |
| Algonquin | Ontario | Hope Bay | Ontario | Mara | Ontario | Senesun | Ontario | St Marc des Carrières | Quebec |
- Marble
- Monzonite
| Stone | Location | Stone | Location | Stone | Location |
| Autumn brown | Quebec | Polychrome | Quebec | Sagami | Quebec |
- Sandstone
| Stone | Location | Stone | Location | Stone | Location | Stone | Location | Stone | Location |
| Ducharme brun | Quebec | Ducharme bleu ciel | Quebec | Ducharme bleu foncé | Quebec | Ducharme bleu pale | Quebec | Ducharme brun garry | Quebec |
| Ducharme chamois joel | Quebec | Ducharme gris cendre | Quebec | Ducharme jaune adirondack | Quebec | Ducharme jaune marbre | Quebec | Ducharme jaune pale | Quebec |
- Slate
- Steatite
- Stromatolites
| Stone | Location | Stone | Location |
| Albanel | Quebec | Mistassini | Quebec |
- Syenite
Mesoamerica
- Tezontle — a volcanic rock used in Pre-Columbian Mesoamerican architecture.
United States
- Brownstone, a type of Triassic sandstone
- Granite, extensively quarried in Vermont, Georgia and New Hampshire
- Black granite – a common trade name for gabbro used as architectural material
- Austin limestone – a marble-like stone widely used as a building stone for interior and exterior wall cladding and interior and exterior paving
Oceania
New Zealand
- Oamaru stone — a creamy limestone mined in North Otago used for architecture and sculpture
- Port Chalmers bluestone — a dark basalt mined in Otago and Canterbury used for architecture
South America