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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
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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
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The company Carl Picard Natursteinwerk has used the summer heat in June in Germany for a particular action: They staged their quarry of red sandstone as a bathing paradise
Stonemasons will send national teams to the EuroSkills Gdańsk competition from September 05 to 09, 2023, in the Polish harbor city
Visitors have the opportunity to try hands-on job-related skills at the many ‘Try-a-Skill’ demonstrations
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Tafoni are created by weathering especially in granites or sandstones, by which the surface of exposed lumps of stone is covered with small cavities
The Arrábida Breccia red stone in Portugal has been added to the Geoheritage Stones list
The list currently names 32 varieties that have played a role in architecture and culture beyond the borders of their homeland
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A stormy, active sun during Earth’s first 100 million years may have kickstarted life on our planet.
At the European Stone Festival in Salzburg, stonemasons and sculptors will show how they turn their ideas into small sculptures
During the weekend from June 03 and 04, 2023, the venue will be the Kapitelplatz, close to the cathedral
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“Marble. Carving the Future“ is the title of the new marketing campaign of the Italian association Confindustria Marmomacchine with the support of the export organization ICE
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Japanese astronomers have observed a superflare on a star located 400 light years away in the constellation Orion, depicted here on an artist’s impression with a binary star in the background