Andrej Mitevski depicts his own experiences, feelings, thoughts, etc., inside a stone

The sculptor from northern Macedonia does not so much want to create forms as emotions from the stone

The Natural Stone Institute’s updated “Silica & Slab Safety Certificate” online learning is focussed on preventing silicosis, safe slab handling, and creating a safety program

In Sweden, the Natural Stone Association is fletching its teeth at fakes from the ceramics industry

Tile companies there have marketed their products under local natural stone names / Also “Jura” is used as fake

In the context of climate protection, old solid construction with ornamental stone is being rediscovered from a modern perspective

It will establish itself alongside the currently common cladding with panels for facades or tiles for floors and walls, not replace it

New in our Stone Finder: RIVERDANCE, an exotic marble with chocolate and white veins, very suitable for luxury design, quarried by Stone White company in China’s northeast

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Miscellaneous: news all around ornamental stone and rock

VISA-free entries to China are possible for citizens from France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, and Malaysia, Xiamen Stone Fair informs

How do you incorporate a café serving food and drink in a nearly 1,000-year-old cathedral?

The architects at Feilden Fowles gave the new building a bit of an open-and-close drawer feel to the historic setting

Researchers at ETH Zurich teach a computer-controlled excavator the basic steps required to erect a simple drystone wall from thick boulders