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Natural stone branch positioned to alleviate refugee problems
Transfer of knowledge in the stone branch of countries of origin could empower a few potential refugees to legally find gainful employment in Europe (or in the US)
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France 2017: a new Natural Stone Trade Fair, Rocalia will take place. The show is to be held from December 5th to 7th in conjunction with the Garden Fair Paysalia in Lyon
Terrorist attack on Istanbul airport: Berlin mourns with sister city
Brandenburg Gate in the colors of the Turkish flag / Among the Berliners are about 200.000 people with Turkish background
Fila has developed a new method to combat stains on natural stone
The SCM Staincheck-Method enables users to reliably estimate the future progress of staining in every-day use of natural stone
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Spring 2016-issue of Building Stone Magazine can be downloaded free of charge.
Turning carbon from CO2 into solid material at an unbelievable rate
Scientists from Iceland and others make the climate gas precipitate into basalt within only two years, not over geological timescales
City festival in Strzegom, Poland: stonework on the market place and a run along granite quarries
Lower Silesia’s heart of granite production will have its central local event from June 17 – 19, 2016
Learning the ropes of laying a stone floor or cladding walls in stone
The EU has financed learning modules for aspiring stonemasons / Invitation to download and translate also for other countries
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
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