To make custom marble sculptures, you definitely want to choose the most suitable and best material, we provide both natural and artificial materials for fabricating custom sculpture such as figure sculpture or religious statues. Natural marble feature noble and elegant attributes, bright and crystal-clear, hard and permanent taste. There are also some suppliers on the market who make custom sculpture with artificial marble in order to reduce costs. Today we would explore the difference between natural marble and artificial marble with you.

Different Material Composition. Natural marble is a metamorphic rock formed by the original rock in the crust through high temperature and high pressure in the crust. It is a medium-hard stone, mainly composed of calcite, limestone, serpentine, and dolomite. Its main component is mainly calcium carbonate, accounting for more than 50%. While artificial marble is made of natural marble, granite gravel as filler, cement, gypsum, and unsaturated polyester resin as adhesive,and stirring, grinding, and polishing during the process.

Different Veins. The veins and color of natural marble are natural with random veins, relatively stretched and beautiful. Marble is smooth and delicate after polishing with a natural and smooth texture. Moreover, each piece of natural marble has a unique natural pattern and color. Artificial marble pattern board has the same pattern, basically the same color, giving people a deliberate beauty, relatively affordable for costs.

Different Structure. Natural marble has a natural structure and crystalline flakes, either granular, flaky, or layered, but artificial marble does not have any structure obviously piled up with stone powder.  

Different Light Transmittance. The light transmittance of natural marble is high, and the light transmittance of a certain thickness of marble is irradiated with a lighter or a flashlight; while the light transmittance of artificial marble of the same thickness is poor or even opaque.