Hyde Brown Schist
A metamorphic schist from central Otago essentially the same stone as the hyde grey it has been selected from hyde schist for its exellent brown tones. An ideal building stone with good grain and workability.
Alexandra Brown Schist
This richly coloured schist from central otago contains many warm colours of brown with hints of sienna and white quartz. This schist has a typical rustic look and colour found in the south island when laid traditionally. Looks exeptional when machined and laid in a modern contemporary drystack style due to its natural colour and texture.
Cluden Schist
Cluden Schist is from the Cluden Station Valley in the Tarras region also known by some as 'Wanaka schist' and is easily one of the best building stones available.
It has a light grey colour base with hints of brown typical of the Tarras region and a perfectly straight grain ideal for dry-stack styles.
This stone produces some of the best schist paving slabs.
Gibbston Schist
A Metamorphic Schist from Central Otago near Arrowtown a Queenstown favorite. A uniformly light grey stone with many linear quartz lines with very few occasional light brown tones where the stone has oxidised which can be hand selected out if required.
It has an silver/shimmery effect and is the favorite of many New Zealand stonemasons due to its natural grain. When it is split down to a thin profile and laid in a tight dry-stack style it can be very eye catching and contemporary,
Clutha Schist
An Otago Schist from the Tarras region predominenly grey with flecks of brown and black layers, has an overall pastel tone to it. Ideally suited to the oldern smeared mortar join of the gold rush era. The picture shown is a recessed mortar random ashlar bond dry-stack style.
Hyde Grey Schist
A Metamorphic schist from the Hyde region of central Otago, mostly a light grey with suttle softening brown tones here and there.
Hyde grey is easily one of the best 'building' schist stones available, not only has it got an attractive colour but also it has a hardness and grain that is ideal for stonemasons. It can be split cleanly along the grain with ease, whilst also being hard enough to enable a clean and accurate 'cross grain' cut with use of an hydraulic guillotine without crushing the stone, this makes it an ideal building stone.
Poolburn Schist
A metamorphic schist from central Otago and the favorite of many stonemasons, has a good natural grain making it ideally suited for beginner DIYers.
It Produces a traditional schist look, with warm autumn colours.
