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0:06Hello and welcome to Natural Stone Outlet.
0:08Today we are going to talk about
0:10Moca Cream limestone from Portugal.
0:13It's a very famous limestone, let's have
0:15a look at it.
0:17So on this side we have the classic type
0:21of Moca Cream. This is the most common type
0:24of Moca Cream limestone. What you see here
0:27is basically is a medium-grain limestone,
0:31with the.. you can see the parallel vein
0:34along the stone, so this is typical from
0:38this limestone. In terms of colour, what we
0:41see is the background is a bit light beige,
0:44while the vein becomes a little bit
0:46darker. So we have two colour tone
0:48variations, from light beige to dark beige or
0:51brownish. The Moca Cream Classic is the
0:53most common type, so normally if you ask
0:56for Moca Cream, this is what you get.
0:58Please note that this sample is polished,
1:00which highlights a bit the of colour of the
1:02stone, you can see the vein it's more
1:04visible. And this little sample here, I
1:08put this one next to the big one because
1:09i would like to make the comparison. Here
1:11we have a cross-cut Moca Cream
1:13limestone. So essentially the blocks in
1:15the quarry, they are extracted with the
1:18vein horizontally, so what you get is the
1:21vein along the stone. So it's extracted
1:25like this. To get the cross-cut, the block
1:28is turned and then it is sawn. So what you
1:32get, instead of getting the parallel
1:34horizontal vein, you don't get any
1:36vein at all. So you get some shaded areas,
1:39you get some clouds, but the colour is
1:43quite uniform, you don't see much vein,
1:45you don´t see much dark, it's all pretty much light beige.
1:48But you see, you know, dots here and there,
1:52some shaded areas. So this is a cross-cut
1:55Moca Cream limestone. This is a vein-cut
1:58Moca Cream limestone.
2:00And please note that this sample is
2:01honed and this one is polished. That's why
2:03you can see the colour tone variation.
2:05If both samples are honed or polished, they
2:07would have the same colour tone. On this
2:10side again we have some honed samples,
2:13it's not polished like the Classic type.
2:16So it becomes a bit more pale, but anyway,
2:19here we can show you the fine grain
2:21Moca Cream. So what we have here, we
2:24still have the parallel vein, which is
2:27typical of the Moca Cream limestone,
2:28parallel vein, so this is a vein-cut
2:32block. So we see the vein running
2:36along the tile but very fine, very
2:40very fine, very discreet. So if you look
2:42at the distance, you can hardly see the
2:44vein. But anyway, it's a little bit
2:47uniform, it's a bit soft, it´s a bit gentle
2:49if compared to the Moca Cream
2:51Classic and the colour is quite uniform.
2:54The difference between the vein and the
2:57background it's not much, so just the fine
3:00grain variation of the Moca Cream.
3:03Also a bit popular this one, if this one is a
3:05bit more expensive the Classic type it's
3:08more affordable, because there's more
3:10quantity of Classic and less quantity of
3:13fine grain. So pretty much this is the
3:15main difference between the two.
3:17The thickness of the grain, this one is a
3:20little bit more consistent than this one,
3:21and yeah, also bit more expensive. So this
3:26is it about the Moca Cream.
3:27Thank you for watching and see you next time.