At present in our country natural slate area mainly distributed as follows.

1. Hebei area.

1) Hebei province mainly slate production big province, mainly including Hebei Baoding area, Yixian County is the current slate stone town, the types of many products is the can be counted on one's fingers, mainly ferruginous slates, yellow wood variegated. Black slate, gray slate, now found quartz products.

2) Baoding Xushui main producing rust board but not good for Yixian County, also produces some yellow wood, and some for engraving violet plate.

3) Tangxian County also produce some of the plate but yield is mainly purple slate, no amount.

4) Hebei Xingtai major production sandstone and quartz products.

2. Beijing area.

1) Beijing Fangshan, mainly the production of yellow wood slate, green slate and the ocean, there are green products and black slate, but because of the influence of environmental protection the main pull to Yixian County processing.

2) there are some Beijing ore letter of many of the basic production to.

3. Jiangxi province Xingzi County is the main production of black slate, and green slate, but the price is more expensive.

4. The north and Jiangxi where the handover is also produced two kinds of products of black and green.

5. Shaanxi produces black slate but low production, high freight costs.

6. The west to produce purple slate, mainly to do tile board with little, yield only one factory.