Natural or man made? Brecchia?

[BridgetownTreasures]

The red in this piece is so vibrant, and the cut so “commercial” that it seems almost manufactured.

 

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[Red-Coat]

Only some physical testing would tell you for sure, but it's not impossible. There was a company in New York that supplied slabs of this material as kitchen worktops and such. It was said to be a natural breccia, although I don't know where it was sourced from.



I could well believe that the dull interior of your piece would come up as that vibrant external colour after polishing and without any dyeing. It might well be a broken piece from a slab of similar material to the above that had been cut and polished for a worktop.

 

[DDancer]

One test you can try is to break a small bit off and heat it with a torch to test for resin being a binder. There are some ceramic type's of similar material but by and large artificial masonry is bound by resin.

 

[Clay Diggins]

Put a torch to it. If it melts, burns, turns black or smells like plastic you have what it looks like. Man made countertop material.