Miscellaneous: ideas all around natural stone

Nasa-scientists found evidence that a region of northern Mars called Arabia Terra experienced thousands of “super eruptions“

Traces of Solar flares in sediments under ancient towns are chronicles of the trade hundreds of years ago

Researchers have re-dated Viking-age commerce connections with regions in North Atlantic Norway, Frankish Western Europe and even the Middle East

Peter’s Corner: the prospects for the natural stone sector for 2022 are good, but it should have its own achievements in terms of “green“, not just profit from the material itself

New in our Stone Finder: MISTRAL, a light cream marble with irregular veins and high resilience from Spanish Levantina group

The ceramic industry is under extreme pressure due to energy prices

The manufacturers of artificial stones are also likely to be affected, because they use heat and pressure for production

Turkish Stone World (issue #112) reports about the ruins of Blaundos, the so called Turkey’s Stonehenge

Latest news: 3 artists from France and other countries may apply for the 2nd Symposium of Monumental Sculptures to be held in the Bretagne (Brittany) in May / June 2022

Participants will create works for a walking trail / Royalty of €3000 per person / Openness for talks with visitors expected

Love, prosperity, contentment, and peace for 2022

Stone-Ideas.com is taking a few days off: Our next issue will appear on January 09, 2022, with a new entry in our STONE FINDER

“Use Natural Stone,“ a web page by the Natural Stone Institute (NSI), has a series of reports about stone cleaning

Looking back at Marmomac 2021 with “Tavoli d’Autore”, curated by ADI designers and architects from Veneto Trentino Alto Adige: “Stone Is A Witness Of Time“