Provenance
One quarry, one family, no traders in between
Everything we sell comes from our own quarry and polishing yard, Mallikarjun Stone Polishing Industries, in Miriyan village, Chincholi taluk, Kalaburagi district, Karnataka — worked by the same family for over 30 years. This is the quarry, the yard, and what we will show anyone who comes to see where their order is actually cut.
Geology
The Kalaburagi belt
Shahabad limestone is a fine-grained limestone quarried across the Kalaburagi belt of north Karnataka, and has been used for flooring and paving across India for decades. It is far less familiar to UK buyers than Indian sandstone, which is the gap our export channel is built to fill.
Our lease covers a working face with beds averaging 40–70cm in usable thickness, worked to a depth of around 18 metres at the current face, giving us many decades of proven reserve at present extraction rates.
Extraction
Quarried and processed by the family
The quarry is our own lease, and we control extraction from block to finished slab. Blocks are freed along the natural bedding planes using wire saws and hand wedging, which keeps breakage low and preserves the full length of usable block for cutting.
Processing
The yard: cutting, honing and polishing
All cutting, honing and polishing happens at our own yard in Miriyan village before any stone is crated for export. Stone leaves India finished and ready to lay — nothing is sent to the UK for further processing.
The yard runs gang saws and multi-blade cutters for sizing, calibration lines for consistent thickness, and dedicated honing and polishing lines for each finish. Combined throughput runs to several hundred tonnes a month, comfortably covering container-scale UK orders alongside our existing domestic supply.
In numbers
The quarry and yard, in numbers
over 30
Years quarrying and processing Shahabad limestone
18,000–22,000 m² of finished slab and tile per month
Processed monthly at the yard
UK first, with regular shipments to Ireland, the Netherlands, Germany and the UAE
Export markets
People and site standards
Workforce and site standards
The quarry and yard are run as a family business with a settled local workforce of around 60 people across extraction, cutting and finishing. All workers use standard site safety equipment, and the yard operates under a documented safety policy covering machine guarding, lifting and dust control.
Environment
Water, waste and restoration
Cutting water is recirculated through settling tanks at the yard, and slurry is dried and reused as pit backfill rather than discharged. Worked-out sections of the quarry are progressively backfilled and levelled as extraction moves across the lease.
Visiting
What a buyer can audit on a visit
We are open to buyer visits to the quarry and yard by arrangement. Give us two weeks' notice and we will plan a day covering the working face, the cutting and polishing lines, and current stock, with time to walk your own order through the process.
See it for yourself
Sample the stone, or ask about a visit
Request a sample, or ask us about visiting the quarry and yard alongside your quote.