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The dark side of your hone appears to be a non abrasive slate which is not suitable for honing.

The rubbing stone is far to coarse to use for generating slurry. The grit size used to make that...

niftyshaving has it right. The light cream colored side is the finest and should be used as a finishing side.
To determine what the composition of the dark side is please shoot some good pics of it...