Artificial stone tiles

[Dr Vapeur]

I have been asked to shine up some artificial green stone tile. I image it would be straight forward enough to shine up these tiles using monkey pads or some other technique. I have included two pictures below. The stone motif is throughout the tile not just on the surface. I would apreciate some idea on how I could approach this job. If possible what these types of tile are called and maybe the manufacturer.
Thanks Richard Gagne

 

[Mikey P]

Looks like the real deal to me.

 

[Dr Vapeur]

Actually, what it looks like is that they mixed rocks into a kind of green cement to make a large rock. Then they sliced the rock to make tiles.
Richard Gagne

 

[Magic Al]

Looks like an aggregate to me. However, you said it is ARTIFICIAL. What does that mean? If it is real stone, then you can polish it by your favorite method.

 

[clean image]

looks like jurassic

be careful with monkey pads because the varing hardness of that stone

like, dave g said before, the monkeys will go after the softer material first

if it was man made, or pieces in a resin, often the aggergate is straight and jaged, like broken pieces


carl