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Colonization of the Antilles by fauna from South America: giant sunken islands served as passageways

Over the last 40 million years, movements of the tectonic plates and glacial cycles gave birth to appearance and disappearance of archipelagos in today’s Caribbean Sea

‘Sculpture Rocks’, a free outdoor exhibition of Japanese artworks (most in stone), is open until June 03, 2021, in Sydney, Australia

Pierre Actual (#1004) presents 5 women working for the limestone Pierre de Bourgogne

The Gravestone Award of the Canton of Basel-Stadt in Switzerland aims to move the bereaved away from mass-produced gravestones

The award was presented for the 25th time in 2020 and honors individual designs by Swiss artists

On our list for the time after Covid-19: São Paulo in Brazil from its artistic side with stone

The metropolis is home to numerous sculptures and, of course, some monumental monuments to the country‘s history

Marlena Senne has won the SwissSkills competition for stonemasons and will represent her country at the EuroSkills in St. Petersburg in 2023

The master craftswoman with a soft spot for historic preservation loves about her profession that she “can create something great out of stone every day“

Online visit at Xiamen Stone Fair 2021: finally the feeling of a trade fair and business again

The live walking tours in English offer virtual stops at exhibitors’ booths

The Aqueduct of Constantinople: how the longest water channel of the ancient world was managed

Double water channels may have been used to maintain the system while enabling constant operation

Miscellaneous: ideas around natural stone

China has landed a rover on Mars with scientific instruments to get information about the planet’s geological structure

KÁRIUS, a marble from Brazil’s state of Ceará with an extremely thin, compact mass and an easy-to-reach-translucency, quarried by Head Mineração

“Marmomac Talks“ live digital event from 24-27 May 2021: to discuss the trend topics of the stone sector with expert lectures and in dialogue with the audience

Ticket prices have been reduced from € 49 to € 29 for the full 4 days

Natural Stone Institute Completes 35th Home with Gary Sinise Foundation

“Vico Magistretti. A Milanese Architect“ is the one of the topics in the May issue of the Salone del Mobile magazine 2021

A ceramics manufacturer from Sweden has registered the name of a limestone with the EU for its product

Until now, the motto in the country has been live-and-let-live, but the company is moving into dangerous territory with its “Granitkeramik“ trademark

Chen Guoqing: “In China, natural stone for the private home is not so popular as in the West, and we are fighting a lack of professional stonemasons and installers“

Interview with the President of the Chinese Stone Association (CSMA) with a preview of the Stone Forum at Xiamen Stone Fair (May 18 – 21, 2021)