New in Our Stone Finder: semi-precious AMAZONITE, very hard, resistant to acids, and translucent, quarried by Granistone company in the Brazilian state of Ceará

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Citco at Salone del Mobile 2023: artistic stone objects, the kind you might use as accents in a home interior

Designers were Ron Arad, Fabrizio Bendazzoli, Estudio Campagna, Zaha Hadid Design, and Citco Design

At the European Stone Festival in Salzburg, stonemasons and sculptors will show how they turn their ideas into small sculptures

During the weekend from June 03 and 04, 2023, the venue will be the Kapitelplatz, close to the cathedral

In his book “Kulturgeschichte des Mühlsteins“ (Cultural History of the Millstone), former CEO Harald Marschner tells of the thick round stones, how they came out of the quarries and how the millers knew how to work with them

Sensation finds from Jordan and Saudi Arabia: carvings in stone are the oldest construction plans of humanity

The depictions describe so-called desert kites, which are long stone ramparts for catching animals in the former savannah

Peters Corner: what it means for the natural stone sector that Polycor, with more than 50 quarries and 20 factories in Canada, the U.S. and France, has become one of the big fish in the business

New in Our Stone Finder: Omani Beige/Sahara Beige, a very special limestone (marble) quarried and processed by Stones World International Co. LLC in the Sultanate of Oman

Elyn Zimmerman’s work “Sudama,“ with reflective and rough granite surfaces, was moved to American University in Washington DC

The monumental work, formerly titled: “Marabar,“ references the caves of Indian monks and allows nature and culture to interplay