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Granite crystallizes at a temperature 200 degrees lower than previously thought
Finding challenges long-held assumptions about common material in continental crusts
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Natural Stone Institute Releases Quarrier Toolbox Talks
Exams and 10 documents outlining best practices to maintain health and safety of quarriers are available for free
Miscellanous: ideas with natural stone
„Gioielli“ (or gem) is the name Pietra di Luca Company gave its limestone jewelry
„View Finder: Landscape and Leisure in the Collection“ in the Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago
Some of the pictures show spectacular stone formations which were used in campaigns for state parks
Nasa’s Parker Solar Probe will dive into the sun’s million degrees hot corona
It will come closer to the star than any human-made object ever has – Ikarus’ flight had ended already much farther in a disaster
The Graveyard in the future: low costs, an ecological beacon, a place for communiaction, and digitalization
At Nuremberg’s Stone+tec, a congress analysed the changes currently occurring in burial and graveyard culture and the implications these changes will have on the branch
Grupo Guidoni’s quartz composite Topzstone is promoted as a technological product for the Metropolitan lifestyle
Collections are dubbed „Downtown“, „City fragments“ or Urban marble“ and more
La Karrière: once a quarry (French: carrière), now a cultural attraction
The site in a village of 140 citizens about 30 km from Dijon attracts some 25.000 visitors per year / Summer art festival in August 2018
Miscellaneous: ideas with natural stone
The title „Pierre de Bourgogne“ (Stone from Burgundy) is protected by a Geographical Indication (GI), since June 2018
WorldSkills in Kazan: if stonemasons will not send participants from 12 countries, they will be out forever
August 22, 2018, is the deadline to register for the Olympic Games of young professionals
„Blood moon“ in the night from July 27 to 28, 2018
It will be the longest total lunar eclipse in this century, visible from Asia, Europe and Africa
Digitalization in small stonemason-shops – smoke-screen and blazing fire
Communication and marketing are the magic words / Industry 4.0 plays in a different league
Novel Method for Investigating Pore Geometry in Rocks
Japanese scientists did their research on four natural stones with different interior structures
India’s stonemasons strive for professional qualification
A Rajasthan competition was recently invoked to find participants for the upcoming WorldSkills
Miscellaneous: ideas with natural stone
„Triumph-Table“ is the name, Aparentment Disseny Design Studio has given its latest piece of marble furniture