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VISA-free entries to China are possible for citizens from France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, and Malaysia, Xiamen Stone Fair informs
Briefly noted
Miscellaneous: news all around ornamental stone and rock
A web page tells the story: “Farmers had painstakingly picked rocks out of the soil to clear space to grow olive trees and grapevines
Miscellaneous: news all around ornamental stone and rock
“Karst Gem“ is the name design studio alcarol gave its new side table. It is made of a boulder of karst rock embedded in a mold of crystal-clear resin
Miscellaneous: news all around ornamental stone and rock
An annular solar eclipse was visible above the Americas on October 14, 2023. We added links to Nasa information and to a webpage where “dancing under the eclipsed sun“ was commercially offered
Miscellaneous: news all around ornamental stone and rock
Booking of exhibitors‘ booths is now open for Xiamen Stone Fair 2024. News are: there will be a new hall for Design located across Huizhan Road, so in front of the main entrance…
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At the EuroSkills 2023 in Gdansk, stonemasons were again among the participants. The 1st place went to Marlena Senne from Switzerland
Ruth Bader Ginsberg, former U.S. Supreme Court justice, gets portrait carving at Grand West Staircase at New York State Capitol
It is the 78th such artwork and is also meant to honor the state’s role in the women’s movement
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On August 20, 2023, the Indian mission Chandrayaan-3 successfully softlanded on the moon near its South pole. It will study the composition of the soil and the rocks in the mountainous region
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On Saturn, megastorms occur approximately every 20 to 30 years and are similar to hurricanes on Earth, although significantly larger. But unlike Earth’s hurricanes, no one knows what causes them and why they last for hundreds of years
A step in the direction of a circular economy: waste from marble quarries as aggregates for iron smelting
From Brazil comes a process to use fragments of marble extraction instead of limestone
Miscellaneous: news all around ornamental stone and rock
The Fulong Sand Art Festival is an annual event held in Taiwan. In 2023, some artists dedicated their works to the Disney100 anniversary
California has put on the agenda the tightening of safeguards on Engineered Stone production and processing
Topics are respiratory protection and wet processing, that are also important for natural stone
Heatwave with over 44 degrees C (111 F) around the Mediterranean: in the stone companies of Turkey, Spain and Greece, saving water is part of everyday life even in normal weather
Recycling of consumption water and rainwater harvesting are key issues