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Miscellaneous: ideas with natural stone
„Envie de Pierre“ (Desire for Stone) is the name of a new web-portal of France’s stone sector
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Natural Stone Institute Announces 2019 Stone Industry Education Series
So called Stone Summits in 10 cities across the US will discuss shop efficiency, measuring success or OSHA safety regulations, among other topics
In France the Organization of „Ecological Stonemasons“ is warning the public of dangers emanating from quartz composite materials
The old adage that engineered stone poses a health-threat to both of users and anyone working the material is warmed over
Miscellaneous: ideas with natural stone
The Singapore Stone is a fragment of a once large sandstone slab with undiciphered inscriptions. Some date it back to the 10th century
Love, peace, and prosperity for 2019
Stone-Ideas.com is taking a few days off: Our next issue will appear on January 6th 2019
The Lagash Border Pillar: a white marble stone with a glistening inscription marking the territory
The exhibition „No Man’s Land“ in the British Museum documents the human desire to dominate land and the brutality and turmoil borders have invoked
Miscellaneous: ideas with natural stone
Brexit is a big topic in the media at the moment, about 4 months before it is to be completed on March 29, 2019
Greek Chatzisavvas company has small Christmas decoration items made of local marble and slate
The affiliate of Akrolithos company has its focus on design with natural stone
Miscellaneous: ideas with natural stone
Above the new International Railway Station of Bologna stands a Shoah Memorial. Its base is comprised of granite slabs, the side walls are clad in limestone.
31-km wide meteorite crater under Greenland’s ice-shield investigated
An international team of scientists used a new remote radar system and debris analysis to verify the deep deformation in the bedrock
Scientists find out that also in Southern Africa stone tools’ trade connected distant communities
Research by lithic experts shows that there are strong similarities in the design over a distance of 300 km
First rain in Atacama desert since 500 years caused a devastation among local microbial life – as it may have happened on Mars, too
The rains in the last three years are attributed to changing climate over the Pacific Ocean
(Christmas-)Gifts 2018 for people who adore natural stone
Like in the years before, Stone-Ideas.com’s editors have collected some inspirations for presents from the wide culture of marble, granite & Co
„Roads of Arabia: Archaeological Treasures of Saudi Arabia“ at the Louvre Abu Dhabi until February 16, 2019
The exhibition follows camel caravans, maritime trading routes and pilgrims’ paths to retract exchanges and encounters in the Arabian Peninsula
Miscellaneous: ideas with natural stone
The Fourth Plinth of London’s Trafalgar Square is a London specialty: Long bare, it serves as a presentation pedestal for modern art since 1999