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„Vaseguy“ (pun intended!) is the nickname a Canadian artist was given by visitors to a local West Coast handicrafts market where he was selling his natural stone vases
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The famous „Azure Window“ on the Mediterranean island of Gozo has been destroyed in a storm on March 08, 2017
Hundreds of ancient earthworks built in the Amazon rain forest
Pre-columbian indigenous people created Geoglyphs nowadays made visible by deforestation
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„PAR JUPITER“!!“ (By Jupiter): A monument has been erected in the French city of Angoulème commemorating the famous cartoon artist René Goscinny, intellectual father of Asterix and Obelix
Planet Earth has one more continent: Zealandia
The plate around New Zealand and New Caledonia once broke away from Gondwana / Its mountains are nowadays covered by water except NZ and NC
Drilling core with a length of 1,6 km coming from a depth of nearly 5 km under sea level
An international team of scientists is making steps to understand the process of subduction of one continental plate under another
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„Blue Hole“ is the name marine scientists have given to giant craters in the ocean near the water’s surface, e.g. in the limestone structure of a coral reef
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The province of Ceará is becoming a new natural stone center in Brazil. 2016 saw an increase in exports by 40% (starting on a low level)
Intermac engaged in ubiquitous information-research for stone processing
Augmented Reality can cut manufacturing costs for machinery / stone product 4.0: a package containing material, production and communication
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The patterns on ponchos worn by Argentinian Gauchos were the paragon for interior architecture in a Berlin steakhouse. The design was developed by Ippolito Fleitz Group
EUROROC informs: Brussels is working on new regulations to reduce crystalline silica
For the first time, threshold values are to be regulated for all EU-countries / perforce the trade organizations accepted the limits set by the commission but hope to coordinate implementation in dialog
EUROROC informe : Bruxelles propose un règlement relatif à la silice cristalline
Pour la première fois, la limite sera réglée pour tous les États de l’Union Européenne, forçant les organisations concernées à accepter cette limite proposée par la Commission, tout en souhaitant qu’un dialogue accompagne son implantation
Be prepared: solar eclipse on Monday, August 21, 2017 racing from Oregon to South Carolina
NASA visualizes the path of the moon’s shadow with an accuracy never reached before
Caesarstone presents book „A Material Menu: Designs for the Culinary Aesthetic“ inspired by its Engineered Stones
The idea goes back to a presentation with Tom Dixon during Milan Design Week 2016
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Spectacular bathtubs in solid stone are lovely to look at but not practical for bathing