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News from inner earth: enormous amounts of liquid oxygen must be there
In experiments with extreme conditions like in the lower earth mantle scientists find new forms of iron oxide setting oxygen free
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Advanced Self-Balancing Architecture: Lithic Dragonfly
Students’ and Stonemasons’ workshop in Straßbourg, France fom June 27 – July 01, 2016
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„We Speak Stone“ was the first stage of a new promotion initiative by Veronafiere-Marmomacc taking 10 companies from the Veronese Stone District to New York City
Spanish geologists propose the quarries of Berroqueña Granite for the list of „Global Heritage Stone Provinces“
The label by the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS) shall help to promote stone with high cultural importance
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Sky burials are a traditional final resting place in Tibet and Mongolia, where remains are left to birds of prey and vultures which are thought to carry the souls of the dead skyward
Cosentino’s Engineered Stone Dekton used in Frankfurt, Germany in a Libeskind project
Slabs in the color „Sirius“ serve as canvass for the architect’s drawing
Latest news: Auction of stone sculpture in support of Save the Children’s Syria Aid programme
British sculptor Matthew Simmonds donates his work influenced by the colonnade around the Temple of Bel, Palmyra / Bidding closes on May 7th, 2016
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Ireland’s Dry Stone Wall Association will be holding a festival in County Donegal’s Glencolmcille on June 17th to 19th 2016
Plate tectonics: parts of an island volcano, complete 70 Million years ago, are now lying 3,500 km apart in the South Atlantic
Research by marine scientists from Kiel and Bremerhaven, Germany
Exposure to crystalline silica: US office for occupational health releases new rules
Stone Associations call companies „to contact their legislative representatives immediately“
Ecuador earthquake caused death toll of at least 500
Along the Pacific coast the Nazca plate subducts (submerges) under the South American plate
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The Indoor-Trade-Fair for Marble Blocks in the Turkish city of Bursa counted 14,728 visitors and 148 exhibitors in its 40,000 m², 7-hall, exhibit area
All about stone: Lists of trade fairs in natural stone, architecture/construction and design/interior-design/lifestyle
Stone-Ideas.com has compiled a list of interesting trade fairs – google ranking now first place
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Bedrock formations erode in time, as is a well-known fact. Not common knowledge but now proven by a group of scientists as reported in Nature Geoscience
Euroroc News (1/16): Emotions as a tool to promote natural stone
Professor Gerd Merke, General Secretary: Stone sector should point out that its material is „true, native and 100% natural“