The name comes from the Greek word “onyx” which means the nail of a finger or claw.  Legend says that one day while Venus was sleeping Eros/Cupid cut her fingernails and left the clippings scattered on the ground. Because no part of a heavenly body can die, the gods turned them into stone which later became known as onyx.

Onyx is formed by the deposition of silica in gas cavities in lava, which results in the distinctive bands or stripes we see in the stone.

ELSADO focus on finding onyx stones that it can provide in large quantity as every professional in the industry knows that onyxes are hard to provide in big sizes or large quantity.

We mainly work with most of our model’s quarries to provide the finest sorts of their extracted blocks for our customers from various locations, quarries like Ghorveh, Green Kerman, Blue, and so on.