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Turkey’s natural stone exports from January to September 2023 overall went down by value (-10,13 %) with an increase in block sales, Turkish Stone World Magazine reports (#124)

Italian sculptor Emanuela Camacci makes – among other things – new works of art from the stone chips that fall off her large sculptures

But she does not adorn herself with current buzzwords like recycling or circular economy

Stone age artists carved detailed human and animal tracks in rock art in Namibia

Indigenous trackers could identify the prints’ species, sex and age for 90% of analyzed engravings

Marmomac 2023: Brazilian Pettrus company won an “A Matter of Stone“ award for its cinema installation with a thematic focus on nature protection in quarrying

The presentation in Hall 1 was curated by Elle Decor Italia

Remnants of amethyst, jasper, agate, and quartz for light sources

Alfonso Martinez Brianza, product designer from Uruguay, finds uses for residues of semi-precious stones

Los Angeles LACMA exhibition “Eternal Medium: Seeing the World in Stone“ through February 11, 2024

The show brings together art pieces that utilize the colors, veins and other natural features of stones

Peter’s Corner: at Marmomac, the newfound old solid (massive) construction was on display, namely with native stone as the load-bearing material

Prototypes were presented within the framework of “Marmomac Meets Academies“

WEIBERNER TUFF, light gray and brown volcanic stone from the Eifel mountains near Cologne in Germany, a very light and very porous building material used since ancient times

Incorporating natural stone water features at home can bring both beauty and tranquility into your space, according to a report on the NSI’s UseNaturalStone web page

Collection “Dal Classico“ by Lithea: inspiration from the design fashions that conquered the Mediterranean area from the 8th century BC

Greece was the source of inspiration at that time and Sicily was one of the centers

Put an end to the false Carrara Calacatta or Pierre de Bourgogne, which in reality comes to the EU from quarries abroad or is a fake stone

The EU Parliament has approved with a large majority the Protected Designations of Origin for natural stones / Validity also online

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

Anping Bridge, not far from Xiamen, dates back to the 12th century and is built entirely of granite

The roadway on thick piers was intended to facilitate the transport of goods to and from a port

VALTURA, a light beige to gray limestone with a timeless appearance, quarried by Croatian company Kamen d.d. Pazin on the Istrian peninsula

The Building Stone magazine (Fall 2023) does a deep dive into sustainability product labels used for building materials such as natural stone and a look at how it compares to manmade materials