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Free Webinar how to protect workers in the stone industry from crystalline silica dust
The online learning will describe the danger of silicosis and outline requirements to comply with OSHA’s rules
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Connecting the deserts in the American West to space, time and light: „Roden Crater“, „City“ and „Star Axis“
Artists are realizing life-time projects to let guests make new experiences, one day
Megalith tombs were family graves in European Stone Age
An international team of scientists collected human remains of 24 individuals from sites in Ireland, Scotland and the Baltic island of Gotland, Sweden
Miscellaneous: ideas with natural stone
Kofferanhänger aus Marmor sind das neueste Produkt der Firma Mikol Marmi
New questions: which role do the very deep ocean waters play in climate change?
Whereas most of the Pacific is responding to modern warming, the ocean under 2000 m depth may be cooling due to waters from the Little Ice Age
Geologists discover the biggest and oldest strewn field of craters on Earth in the Rocky Mountains
Fields of caters are remnants of pieces of small iron asteroids which broke apart in the Earth’s atmosphere / Impact 280 million years ago
The stonemasonry school of Brač in the Croatian Adria celebrates its 110th anniversary this year
A congress discusses current questions in the natural stone branch and hopes to increase attractiveness of the profession
The European Stone Festival 2019 will take place in Trondheim, Norway from June 21 to 23
One task in the competition will be to carve stone elements for the design of a City Square
Miscellaneous: ideas with natural stone
The focus of the Italian Stone Theater in Hall 1 of Marmomac (September 25-28, 2019) will be on stone as nature’s material
Euroroc News: Occupational health issues caused by crystalline silica dust is a world-wide topic of discussion for Stonemasons
Here is an overview of the status quo
6th European Artistic Crafts Days take place in 14 countries from April 05 to 07, 2019
Workshops open their doors, demonstrations are held, and training schools are open
Combined imaging technologies make changes at the stone surface of cathedrals visible
The „Opto-technical Monitoring” from the University of Bamberg helps to evaluate new conservation methods using nanomaterials
Miscellaneous: ideas with natural stone
Several new products using natural stone or competing materials received one of the 2018 Red Dot awards
Natural Stone Institute’s Craftsman of the Year 2018 is Joey Marcella from Mario & Son
His philosophy is „don’t chase the money, chase your passion”/ He is as comfortable with hammer and chisel as with CNC machines
In summer 2016, an ultra-slow earthquake which lasted more than 50 days occurred under the Sea of Marmara
Accumulated energy along faults may be released by slow deformation at depth in the Earth crust