Onyx
Onyx is the stuff of fantasy. It’s enchanting translucent stone, It looks like a gemstone, When backlit, onyx radiates a soft gorgous light. It’s truly an extraordinary stone; wherever it is used it looks like a piece of art. There is no artist greater than our own Earth.
In the commercial stone industry, onyx refers a category of stones that are made of layered bands of light-colored or translucent minerals. Most slabs of onyx are what a geologist would call banded calcite. Onyx is commercially classified as a sibling to marble because these two stones have the same mineral content. Onyx is made of calcite, which is the same mineral that makes up limestone, marble, and travertine. In fact, banded calcite is a close cousin of travertine and forms in a similar way