This month, we highlight the latest deals we have on our website for several deals for beige limestone tiles from Portugal. Portugal has good abundance of beige limestone and on this month, we have few interesting opportunities for tiles.

60x30x2cm limestone tiles bush-hammered at good value

Material: Moca Creme
Color: Light beige
Offer: Bush-hammered tiles with 60x30x2cm

Check the offer here.

Moca Cream limestone strips for flooring

Material: Moca Creme
Color: Beige
Offer: Brushed strips with 100x15x3cm

Check the offer here.

Moleanos limestone tiles with various sizes

Material: Moleanos
Color: Beige
Offer: Honed tiles with 2cm thickness and flexible sizes

Check the deal here.

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This week on our Top deals, we have some interesting opportunities, such as our first opportunities on granite, but also limestone and travertine. Check out below!

Estremoz White marble, 60x60x2cm polished tiles

Material: Estremoz White
Color: White
Offer: Polished tiles with 60x60x2cm

Large quantities available.

Estremoz White marble, 60x30x2cm polished tiles

Material: Estremoz White
Color: White
Offer: Polished tiles with 60x30x2cm

Large quantities available.

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The Moca Cream Classic is the most relevant type, the one that has the most quantity, affordable price and generally most demand. This selection presents a medium grain structure, its typical parallel vein, a fairly consistent beige colour and a vein that can be a little darker beige or even brownish. As mentioned, this is the most common type of Moca Cream, with huge supply and demand.

In addition to the Moca Cream Classic with a vein-cut orientation (which shows the parallel vein), we have the Moca Cream with a cross-cut structure. Here, we have a fairly different limestones, where the parallel vein is replaced by a shaded structure with some clouds and spots here and there.

Finally, we have the Moca Cream Fine grain, which presents the same parallel vein structure as the Classic type, but with a fine grain. Here, we see a very fine grain, uniform colour and background and generally a delicate look. This is a more expensive type that also has less quantity available.

For more details about the Moca Cream limestone and its variations, you can contact us directly or check any of the following sources:

– Mocacream
– Portugalimestones

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The New Valverde is a grey limestone, with a fairly consistent grey colour, with some slight colour tone variation and occasional shells/inclusions. Unlike the original Azul Valverde, this limestone is quite hard, accepting basically all kinds of surface finishings. The consistent grey colour combined with the surface finishing versatility is what makes the New Valverde such an interesting limestone.

The New Valverde is therefore an interesting grey limestone that can compete with other grey limestones like the Jura Grey from Germany and others. It can be used on a wide diversity of applications, both interior and exterior. Below, we present you some of the most popular surface finishes for this great limestone from Portugal.

New Valverde limestone – honed

New Valverde limestone – sandblasted and brushed

New Valverde limestone – sandblasted

New Valverde limestone – flamed

For more details about this new grey limestone or other types of grey limestones from Portugal, you can contact us directly or check any of the following sources:
– Azulvalverde
– Portugalimestones

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Both the Jura Grey and the Moleanos Blue are very popular and on-demand limestones that are commonly used on projects both on exterior and interior applications. They share common technical characteristics as well as visual ones. Below, we describe each individual limestones, showing what their similarities and differences.

1. Moleanos Blue limestone

The Moleanos Blue is a light blue / grey coloured limestone that is extracted in Portugal by few quarries. It presents a pale blue / silver colour, with a fairly uniform background and slightly darker areas with a specific pattern. It may also present some brownish darker spots, but generally the limestone does not present too much calcite nor fossils, having a pretty “clean” surface.

The Moleanos Blue is also a fairly hard limestone that is normally used on both exterior and interior applications, in the vast majority of countries, regardless of weather conditions.

Main Features: Light grey / blue coloured background; considerable hardness; little variation.

Recommended for: Exterior and interior applications in general.

2. Jura Grey limestone

The Jura Grey is a grey coloured limestone that is extracted in Germany by several quarries. This is in fact a direct variation of the well-known Jura Beige limestone, but presenting a grey / silver colour. The Jura Grey limestone presents a different structure than the Moleanos Blue, consisting on a messy and unpredictable structure, with strong signs of calcite, as well as diverse grey colour tone variation from dark to light. In addition, it presents regular signs of fossils and metal elements (that may rust if in contact with water). All-in-all, this is a cold coloured stone that has become increasingly popular for its particular look and great technical properties.

The Jura Grey is a type of limestone that is used basically on any kind of application, both interior and exterior.

Main Features: Irregular and messy structure; considerable hardness; strong signs of fossils and calcite.

Recommended for: Exterior cladding and interior applications.

Final comparison

Despite the comparison, we are talking about fairly different limestones, with different structures and overall look. White the Moleanos Blue presents a fairly plain colour, look and background, the Jura Grey presents a more messy structure, with strong signs of calcite and fossils. They both present the cold / cement look of the light silver colour, but with different look.

With a honed surface, these difference are pretty evident. However, if we add a popular surface finishing used on exteriors such as the sandblasted + brushed, we will see more uniformity and a tendency for both limestones to look the same. This specific surface finishing on the Moleanos Blue will carve a little more the stone and make it look very plain, basically looking like concrete. Whereas on the Jura Grey, this specific surface finishing will not change it dramatically, due to its hardness, the sandblast hardly carves out the surface of the stone, making it only slightly lighter than usual.

In any case, we are talking about two limestones that, despite being strong competitors, are not that similar if we look close enough. They look slightly different, have different structures but share the colour and overall cold feel that is much appreciated these days.

For more information about these limestones, visit Juragreylimestone or Moleanos. Or check the video with the comparison here.

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With an uniform background, a considerable hardness and a persistent beige colour, the Moleanos limestone has been one of the top beige limestone choices for architects and decorators from all over the world. This increased preference lies on the core characteristics of the Moleanos, which makes it suitable for almost anything, with no real restrictions. The subtle yet consistent beige colour matches about any environment or even other natural stones; its hardness allows the limestone to endure almost all climate and special conditions and the fine uniform background suits a huge range of decoration and furniture types. On the other hand, this limestone has several different variations with their own special elements and recommended applications.

Moleanos Classic

The Moleanos Classic is the most common type of Moleanos at a global scale. It presents a singular appearance composed by a very consistent and uniform beige colour, medium grain and strong signs of shells and fossils. The Classic structure is substantially harder and more durable – superior to the Moleanos Fine for example. Furthermore, this is a very versatile and on-demand variation, as it is recommended for a huge variety of applications. However, it is particularly popular for cladding and all types of flooring.

Moleanos Fine

As the name suggests, this is the highest quality version of the Moleanos limestone. It presents a very fine grain with an extremely uniform background and a consistent light beige colour. There are occasional shell and fossil elements across the surface, but they are quite subtle and not always visible at a medium-long distance. Despite presenting a considerable endurance, the Moleanos Fine is the least hard and durable of all the variations presented here. In terms of applications, this limestone is frequently used on exterior cladding and interior flooring.

Moleanos Blue

Direct variation of the Moleanos Classic sharing most of its properties, including a considerable hardness, medium grain, high versatility and fairly strong elements, like fossils and colour variation spots. The main difference in the Moleanos Blue is the base colour, which is blueish with grey tonalities. This is a very popular type of Moleanos but the offer doesn’t always meet the demand, due to the current limited availability. The Moleanos Blue is recommended for almost everything but it excels the most at interior flooring projects.

Moleanos Vidraco

With an extraordinary hardness, the Moleanos Vidraco presents the most durability of all the variations presented here. As so, it is highly recommended for all types of flooring applications, including paving and landscaping. In terms of structure, it presents a rather glassy surface with a fine background and a persistent beige colour. Besides these features, the Moleanos Vidraco also presents large inclusions, such as shells and hints of calcite – characteristic elements that compose the peculiar appearance of this variation.

For more detailed information about Moleanos limestones and its variations, check these sources:
– Moleanos
– Moleanosportal

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Country: Portugal   |   Colour: Beige   |   Stone Type: Limestone
Main Features: Uniform background; darker natural elements

With an incredible reputation, the Moca Cream is a natural stone with no real competition in the international market. Despite being quite versatile, this beige limestone presents a fairly uniform background, with a consistent colour and neutral attributes. The natural elements are very subtle with a unique beauty, which goes well with about any application. Additionally, there are two main appearances for the Moca Cream. While the vein-cut focuses on displaying the parallel and characteristic vein, the cross-cut presents a smoother and much more uniform background. The Moca Cream also has a considerable stock availability, along with numerous variations and a competitive price.

Structure and Composition

Ranging from a thin to medium grain, the Moca Cream is extremely versatile in terms of structure. The beige colour is quite consistent in most cases, but it can range from light beige to medium beige. One of the main characteristics of this limestone is the parallel veinage, which runs along the entire surface of the stone. This variation is called vein-cut and it portraits the true essence of the Moca Cream. However, there’s another well-known variation, the cross-cut. This one presents a smoother and more uniform surface, with no vein at all. Additionally, the Moca Cream shows several natural elements, including shells, fossils and lighter-darker spots. This is a fairly hard stone with high utility, due to its features and neutral colour.

Market Presence

The Moca Cream is the ex-libris of the Portuguese limestones and it presents a notorious reputation in both, national and international markets. Its integrity is so well-know that it has become a reference natural stone for architects and decorators from all over the world. Despite this successful background, the Moca Cream doesn’t really present a direct competition. This obviously creates a suitable environment for further prosperity and growth, as well as targeted strategies, such as a very competitive price. In general, the Moca Cream presents incredible demand levels, especially from the European and North American markets. Nevertheless, the Chinese market has been importing huge quantities of this beige limestone in the past few years.

Extraction and Applications

Unique and versatile, the Moca Cream is a multifaceted limestone when it comes to applications. It can be used in about any project, in both interior and exterior setups. It even goes well with other natural stones and materials. Still, the most popular applications are definitely exterior cladding, interior decoration and flooring in general. The Moca Cream limestone is explored by over twenty small-medium quarries in Alcanede, Portugal. However, the exploration set is inside a natural reserve, which sometimes condition the extraction and production milestones. This particular area is considered to be the main ornamental limestone quarrying center in Portugal.

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For more information about this fantastic limestone, visit:
– Mocacream
– Portugalimestones

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