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Silestone Counter Tops: A Buyer's Guide. Silestone Counter Tops are a man-made or engineered stone surface also called quartz countertops designed to look and perform similar to granite countertops. Quartz countertops combine natural quartz from crushed granite with a binding resin and coloring agents to form a very hard and durable surface.
Granite is prized for its durability and natural beauty, making it an ideal material for a countertop. True granite countertops are quite expensive since each slab is custom cut, sanded and polished. Laminate countertops are a viable, more affordable alternative, and as such, are far more common.