Photo is for reference only. Color, veining, and shading vary between slabs. This stone is brought in per order, so tell us your full run and we will source slabs from the same block.

Multicolor Onyx

Quarry: Turkey
Surface Finish: Polished
Edges: Natural (Unpolished)
Thickness: 18 mm
Requires Sealing: Yes

Put a lamp behind the panel and the amber, green and rust bands pull apart into layers. Multicolor Onyx is the most variable stone we sell, and two slabs off one shipment can read as different palettes.

Quarry	Turkey
Surface Finish	Polished
Edges	Natural (Unpolished)
Thickness	18 mm
Requires Sealing	Yes

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Why Choose Multicolor Onyx

Translucent When Backlit Amber, green and rust bands pull apart into layers of colour once a lamp sits behind them.

Unique Appearance The most variable stone we sell. Two slabs off one shipment can carry entirely different palettes.

Provides an Upscale Look One lit panel in a bar or reception is the thing people remember about a space.

Best as a Feature Onyx is at its finest on a backlit bar front, feature wall or vanity, where translucency becomes the centrepiece of the room.

What Is Multicolor Onyx?

Several colours in one slab, with light behind all of them.

Multicolor Onyx is a translucent Turkish stone that carries amber, green, cream and rust bands inside a single slab. Honey Onyx settles on one warm palette and stays there; this one refuses to choose and runs several through the same piece.

Light travelling through the stone is the property you are paying for. Behind a lamp the bands pull apart into separate layers of colour and the panel stops reading as a surface at all.

What Is Onyx, Geologically?

Architectural onyx is banded calcite, built up a layer at a time wherever mineral-loaded water reached the surface in caves and springs. Each band belongs to its own stretch of deposition, and the traces the water carried set its colour.

None of that connects it to the black onyx in a jewellery case, which is chalcedony. Two materials ended up sharing a word, and that is the whole story.

Why Do the Colors Vary So Much?

Because the water changed as the stone was forming. Ambers and rusts come from iron, greens from other traces, and the clean bands mark stretches where the water ran relatively pure.

Nothing else we handle moves about this much. Slabs off one shipment can carry palettes with nothing in common, and no photograph prepares you for what turns up.

Should You Book-Match It?

Book-matching opens two sequential slabs like a book and mirrors the banding across the seam. With this much colour in play the result is striking, turning a busy panel into a composition somebody clearly intended.

Raise it when you place the order rather than at fabrication. Sequential cutting is the point, and the pair have to travel together from the start.

How Much Does Multicolor Onyx Cost in Cagayan de Oro?

Prices are subject to change without prior notice.

Item	Starting Rates
Multicolor Onyx slab	Quoted per project
Fabrication	₱500 per lm
Installation	₱500 per lm
Sink or hob cut-outs	₱500 per set

Onyx is ordered in against a named job rather than stocked. Nothing stands at the Cagayan de Oro yard for you to pick in person, which is why the slab row is quoted per project and carries no rate. Cut-out charges apply only where we also install, and delivery is calculated on distance out from the branch.

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How Do You Backlight Multicolor Onyx?

Neutral light, because the slab cannot pick a side.

Lighting from behind is the reason anyone buys onyx. Unlit it is a delicate, demanding stone passing for a busy marble; lit, it does something no other material manages.

Colour temperature is where it gets awkward. Warm ambers and cool greens in one slab mean any light favouring either end throws away half of what you bought.

Stay neutral, somewhere near 4000K. Warm light floods the greens and cool light kills the ambers.
Diffused LED panels give an even wash, where point sources arrive as hot spots.
Hold the fitting off the back face so heat has room to escape.
Specify dimmable gear, since the colour balance moves as intensity changes.
Thinner stone transmits more, so raise reduced thickness early for a lit panel.

Trial the actual slab before the fixing is committed. Colour distribution varies so widely that one rig behind two pieces produces genuinely different rooms.

Design frame, lamp and access together, and bring the drawings to the Cagayan de Oro branch while there is time to change them. Retrofitting any of the three behind a finished panel is the hard way round.

Where Should You Use Multicolor Onyx?

One feature, lit properly, and nothing that takes wear.

Use it once in a space rather than repeatedly. Everything listed below is upright, low-traffic and easy to light, which is exactly the combination this stone needs.

Partition panels and lit feature walls
The front of a bar or the face of a reception desk
Vanity tops and clad bathroom walls
Inlay work and tabletops
Splashbacks set away from a cooktop

Four colours and heavy banding need quiet around them, and two panels in one room compete instead of complementing.

Bar fronts and reception desks are its natural home. Upright, free of wear, lit on purpose, and sitting exactly where a business wants to leave people with something to remember.

Working surfaces are the exception to all of it. Scratching, etching and chipped edges are all realistic outcomes, which is worth hearing before a Cagayan de Oro order is placed.

How Do You Clean Multicolor Onyx?

Three habits, all of them gentle ones.

Use Only Onyx-Safe Cleaner

Calcite is what the stone is made of, which rules out vinegar, lemon and most bathroom products. A pH-neutral stone cleaner is the only safe thing to use daily.

Wipe, Never Scrub

Abrasive pads leave scratching you can see, because the material really is that soft. A damp soft cloth handles anything a feature surface realistically meets.

Dry It Afterwards

Water marks show on a polished translucent face, and moisture left sitting does more harm here than on a dense stone. Finish with a dry pass.

Take the cleaner home with the panel instead of hunting for one later. Our Cagayan de Oro branch stocks specially-formulated stone cleaners.

How Do You Care for Multicolor Onyx?

Three habits that keep a delicate stone intact.

Seal It When It Needs It

Porous stone takes up stains quickly, so sealing is part of owning this one. Let the water test call it, which on a busy surface can mean as often as every six months, sooner on a vanity meeting cosmetics.

Keep Acids Away Entirely

Citrus, cosmetics, toilet cleaners and limescale removers all go after calcite. On translucent stone an etch alters the light coming through the panel as well as the look of the face.

Protect the Edges

Chipping comes far more readily to onyx than to granite or marble, and the banding builds in natural planes of weakness. Eased or bullnosed profiles outlast a sharp arris by a wide margin.

Is Multicolor Onyx Good for Kitchen Countertops?

Better said now than after fabrication.

No. Onyx is not something we would specify for a working kitchen counter, and that goes for both varieties we carry.

Soft, porous and brittle is the honest summary, with alabaster a nearer relative than granite. Set that against the most demanding surface in a house and the mismatch is obvious.

Contact with calamansi, vinegar or tomato etches it, and sealer changes nothing there.
Knife marks read plainly across a polished translucent face.
Pans and pot handles find the edges, and the banding makes chipping likelier.
Tolerating the damage is costly, and so is replacing the piece.

If you want this stone in a Cagayan de Oro kitchen, put it on an island face or a lit splashback well clear of the hob. Material where the eye goes, something tougher where the work happens.

For the counter, granite at ₱4,200 per square metre or engineered quartz from ₱5,200 will serve you far better, and both are held in stock at the Cagayan de Oro yard rather than ordered in. Granite will not scorch and quartz resists staining without ever wanting a sealer, though keep a trivet on either: any stone can crack where the temperature change is sudden and extreme, and heat is quartz’s weak point.

Does Multicolor Onyx Need Sealing?

Not optional, though the stone sets the timing.

Yes. Few stones we handle are as porous as this one, which makes a sealer matter more here than on any granite or marble.

Oil, wine, cosmetics and cleaning products all sink into unsealed onyx. A stain inside a translucent panel is worse than one in an opaque stone, since it reads whether the lamp is on or off.

Check it whenever you are unsure. Pool a little water on the face, leave it fifteen minutes and wipe: darkening where it sat means the protection has gone. Six months is a rough guide on a busy surface, nothing firmer than that.

Etching is the one thing a sealer will not touch. Acid dissolves calcite on contact, so keeping citrus and descalers off the panel is a separate discipline. Neither fault ends the piece: a poultice draws most stains out, and an etch comes back with polishing powder or a fabricator’s attention.

Frequently Asked Questions

How is Multicolor Onyx different from Honey Onyx?

It carries several colours in one slab where Honey commits to a single palette. Honey Onyx stays warm amber and gold; Multicolor runs ambers, greens, creams and rusts across the same piece.

Both are indent order and both behave identically. The difference is purely visual, and it decides which light temperature suits the stone.

What light temperature suits a multicolored slab?

Neutral white, near 4000K. Warm sources flood the greens and cool ones kill the ambers, so either extreme throws away half the slab.

Dimmable fittings earn their cost, because the balance shifts noticeably as intensity changes. Trial it against your own slab before the fixing is finalised.

Should you book-match Multicolor Onyx?

On a large panel, yes. Mirroring the banding across a seam turns a busy stone into a symmetrical composition somebody clearly intended.

Sequential cutting is what makes it work, so the slabs must stay together and the request belongs at order rather than fabrication. Expect a premium for the pair.

Why do two slabs look completely different?

Because the mineral content of the water shifted as each band went down. Colour distribution is genuinely unpredictable, and nothing else we sell moves about this much.

Never order it from a photograph or a hand sample. Choose the actual slab, ideally with a light behind it.

Does Multicolor Onyx etch and scratch?

Yes to both. Calcite loses a microscopic layer to any acid on contact, and the stone is soft enough that knives and grit mark it easily.

On an upright feature neither matters, which is where this material belongs. On a working counter both matter enormously, which is where it does not.

Why do onyx slabs have mesh backing?

Onyx is brittle and its banding creates natural planes of weakness, so bonded fiberglass mesh holds a slab together through transport, fabrication and fitting.

Every supplier does it, which makes it standard rather than a defect. Mesh does affect backlighting, so flag a lit panel to your fabricator at the outset.

Can Multicolor Onyx be used in a bathroom?

Yes, and a vanity or clad wall is among the better uses. Next to a kitchen a bathroom barely touches the stone, and a lit onyx wall behind a basin is a genuine feature.

Steer cosmetics, toners and limescale removers away, since all of them attack calcite as readily as citrus. Seal it when the water test asks.

Where can you buy Multicolor Onyx in Cagayan de Oro?

Stone Depot supplies Multicolor Onyx through its Cagayan de Oro branch. Onyx is indent order, so no panel stands in the yard to walk around and choose; yours is brought in for the project once the order is placed, and lead time is worth confirming before fitters are booked.

No stone we sell needs a clearer brief before ordering than this one. Our Cagayan de Oro yard opens Monday to Saturday, 8 AM to 5 PM, and you can email email@stonedepot.com.

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