A bit about shungit

Shungites - specific carbonaceous rock mined on an industrial scale only in Karelia, but assume that there is only the deposit is not entirely accurate. Shungite - rocks of Precambrian age, comprising a large number of metamorphic organic matter. It is dense, durable rock layered or monolithic, characterized by high chemical stability, relatively high resistance to abrasion and frost, the color depending on the chemical composition can be black, gray, gray and other colors, interspersed with pyrite (gold), quartz ( white). Shungite - a valuable raw material for construction and industry. Materials based on schungite can be applied in individual housing. On decorative properties of the rock belongs to a Class 2 in accordance with the requirements of GOST 9479-98. Certificate of quality, shungite vacant first class building materials that can be used in all types of construction. We now proceed directly to the application schungite and its products in the design. The main natural form schungite - monolithic block. They have a three-dimensional, contoured shape with sharp edges, sides and steps, with major breaks and hollows on the surface. Textured stone, which emphasizes the differences of shades of gray on its sides. In landscape design, it is used as a freestanding stone, and as a fairly large group of stones in various compositions for thematic landscapes: mountains, canyons, terraced, etc. The advantage of these stones is their self-sufficiency, completeness, how the landscape of the object. Such stones are preferably used individually or as a center of the composition. Especially good are combined with jets of water in waterfalls and fountains. Stylistically schungite blocks are great for the Japanese garden. It should be noted that such stones, the bigger, more beautiful. Second fundamental form schungite are limestone thickness. This polygonal tiles of arbitrary shape approximately the same thickness, with two parallel planes. Plane have no relief or are weakly expressed roughness, or stepped relief (up to 5 mm). Thicknesses can be from 20 mm to 70 mm, and, as a rule, the thicker limestone, the greater the area of ??the stone. Limestone from shungite shale are mainly used for flooring - this is due to: firstly, the strength of rocks, low water absorption, high abrasion resistance and frost resistance (compared to the sandstones of these characteristics is much better), and secondly, their smooth, rough surface on which it is convenient to walk, and which does not slide, and thirdly, a large range of thicknesses of stone, it can be used for different loads: an entry area at which the drive machine, and walking paths, stone require different thicknesses. Of the large plates schungite thickness of 40 mm and above can be done step by step paths that look great on a green lawn, and surrounded by small otsypok whose color can be akin to a stone or a contrast. Applied shungite limestone also for facing the different surfaces: a thin stone 15-30 mm thick easy to mount on a vertical wall. When exterior masonry of buildings mosaic schungite blends well with almost all the wall building materials. This domestic brick red, yellow, apricot tones, and colorful imported brick (shungite very well emphasizes the dark component of the color of brick). Masonry schungite blends well with the tree shades. When using natural stone for exterior finishing of the building to link the colors of its elements (basement, facade, windows, roof) with each other, so that the house did not look too colorful, and that each element was part of the whole. Thin limestone from shungite can be used to design the interiors of buildings. Apart from the purely aesthetic problem, it should be noted and ecological features schungite: it is considered that it compensates for the man-made radiation. Schungite room where the walls, ceiling and floor are made with lots of schungite positively affect not only the physical condition of man, but also on its psychological and emotional well-being. If the house is just in process of construction, it is possible to test the properties of schungite for yourself. From shungite limestone tiles can be cut in various sizes and thicknesses: thin tiles (15-30 mm) is used for lining, and thick (30-60 mm) - for paving. Thick jets of small size (100 x 100 mm, 100 x 200 mm) is the pavement. Paving schungite pavement creates an interesting painting because the color of the stone "plays", and the light step texture of stone masonry adds volume and creates on the surface of a convex figure. Warm black pavement allows you to combine it with virtually any granite paving stones, like the chopped and cut. This gives designers an unlimited number of options for flooring. Facing schungite tiles gives the object a more austere, classical style. Rhythmic pattern of masonry can be varied within wide limits, using the same tile or combining tiles of different sizes (200 * 200 200 * 150 200 * 100 100 * 100). Again, in domestic interiors, not to make the space very dark, you can combine the tiles from shungite with bright tiles of types of stone. For the interiors are very interesting texture of masonry can be obtained using long, narrow tile from shungite, the so-called "noodles" or "strip". The height of a tile (typically 30 to 60 mm) is much smaller than its length, which is usually not fixed, but is free size (length in the shoulder straps). Combining the "noodles" of different heights, you can get a very nice surface, very individual, depending only on the designer's imagination, and if the background of a stack to make a paste of contrasting elements (mirrors, paintings, masks, reliefs), the unique interior is guaranteed. Another kind of tile from shungite is, so-called "rump." Kind of tile "noodles" with a natural side. Masonry of this material is obtained by a powerful and relief, so it should be used for exterior decoration of buildings and different landscape structures (retaining walls, parapets reservoirs). If the tile (any size) subjected to additional processing operations (goltovke), we obtain the so-called "aged" tile. Aesthetic perception of laying out a tile on the order of magnitude higher than usual. Tile edges, bumps on the surface drawn with rounded, smoothed, cleaned oxide films, the color of the stone becomes lighter, with a noble gray hair. " In laying such tiles creates the effect of embossed leather that is very attractive for interior design. In addition to the foregoing, the dignity of antique tiles is the smoothness of its surface, the pleasant tactile sensation when touching it. It is very important in the interior: you do not scratch, touching his shoulder walls, the floor of this tile can walk barefoot, all this is even more true with respect to the inner liner pools. Shungite in water adsorption is active, ie absorbs gases and dissolved substances in water surface layer, it also has antibacterial properties. These properties are applied when using shungites in potable water filters and water in swimming pools.