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Fractal structures in the ammonoid shells millions of years ago gave the animals special protection from predators when they bit them

Marketing for natural stone (3): the sector is once again in danger of losing touch with materials considered modern

When the talk turns to contemporary building materials in public, no one automatically thinks of stone

FIOR DI PESCO CARNICO, a magnificent marble with a white or grey background and bright veins ideal for bookmatching, quarried by Italian Margraf company

Four monumental totems in stone adorn the access roads to a community in the French Haut-Languedoc mountain range, Pierre Actual reports (#9/2023)

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

On occasion of the 45th World Heritage Meeting in Saudi Arabia in September 2023, the issue #104 of Unesco’s World Heritage Magazin has been published

The Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk, Virginia, returned an original Bakor monolith to Nigeria

The mysterious artwork originates from stone circles in today’s Cross River State and probably depicts an ancestor figure

The Stone+tec 2024 will include the new Tile+tec with ceramic products

The next natural stone exhibition from June 19 to 22 in Nuremberg will cover all areas of tile culture

General Meeting 2023 of the German Ornamental Stone Association (DNV): Natural stone as “building material of the future“

The New Constructing with Stone will play an important role at the Architecture Congress during the Stone+tec (June 19 – 22, 2024) in Nuremberg)

EMERALD GREEN, a quartzite with soft green and gold tones perfect for precious and unique interior design, quarried in the Brazilian state of Bahia by Guidoni Group

Germans have invested a lot of money in natural stone in the home also in the third Covid year (2022)

Consumption increased by a good +14% compared to the previous year (2021) when the total had already risen by +10.6%

“Energy of Harmony“ was the theme of the 4th Tuwaiq Sculpture Symposium 2023 in Riyadh

30 large-scale granite sculptures were created during 26 days in February by 30 artists from 20 countries worldwide and from Saudi Arabia

Miscellaneous: news all around ornamental stone and rock

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

Tripun Bokanić Awards for natural stone 2023 awarded in Croatia

The initiator is the stonemasonry school Klesarska Škola on the limestone island of Brač together with the Oris House of Architecture in Zagreb