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Miscellaneous: news all around ornamental stone and rock

VISA-free entries to China are possible for citizens from France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, and Malaysia, Xiamen Stone Fair informs

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…

Miscellaneous: news all around ornamental stone and rock

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

Miscellaneous: news all around ornamental stone and rock

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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