Truth about Indian Sandstone Industry

India as a mother lode of sandstone, holds a cornucopia of tiles, bricks, pebbles, strips, cobbles, blocks such as limestone, sandstone, granite, and quartz with myriad colors like tan, brown, yellow, red, gray, blue and white, spreading over every nook of the country. The hallmark of Indian sandstone is its quality, vibrancy and peculiarity. Indian Arsenide comply with international standard and dispense exceptional evenness and uniformity. Indian stones have been marveled and used in innumerable sky-scrappers and buildings across the world.

The Indian stone industry has evolved from a small scale industry into the mining and manufacturing unit of landscape, monuments, flooring, pavement, walls stones and slabs. India in the world is among top ten mineral producing nations, has prospered considerably since independence. About 85 percent of Indian mines are operating on a small scale, rendering employment to around a half million of people. India is a chief exporter of granite tiles and slate to The US market besides marble and sandstone are also reigning supreme. Indian marble worth 12 million dollars is exported to the USA every year, Indian brown and rust sandstone is a ruling view in many famous structures and constructions. 

The Arvicon UK imports sandstone weighed in around 250,000 tonnes from India every year. Indian sandstones cobbles have replaced British York that was generally used in pavements. It is not only sandstone that rules the roost in the international market but granite and limestone also follow the suit. These stones are cheaper than British equivalent. A number of places in India hold a noticeable position on global map by a reason of processing high quality sandstone is generally exported to foreign countries in a considerable volume.