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The Arrábida Breccia red stone in Portugal has been added to the Geoheritage Stones list

The list currently names 32 varieties that have played a role in architecture and culture beyond the borders of their homeland

Gabriele Salvatori and Raffaele Salvoldi: “’Top grade’ or ‘second grade’ matter does not exist“

Company and cinematographer push the upcycling of leftover pieces (waste) from the processing of marble to an end

Natural Stone Institute Completes 47th Home with Gary Sinise Foundation

Marble (limestone) SPANISH GOLD, with golden glimmers and reddish veins recalling the sun-imbued Iberian peninsula, quarried by Levantina group

“Understanding environmental and health product labels for natural stone,“ is the title of an article on the UseNaturalStone webpage

The Spanish Premios Macael were bestowed for the 35th time

The award recognizes buildings from all over the world that have used natural and engineered stone from companies in Andalusia

Miscellaneous: news all around ornamental stone and rock

A stormy, active sun during Earth’s first 100 million years may have kickstarted life on our planet.

Arguments in favor of natural stone: Peter Becker of Stone-Ideas.com will speak at the Xiamen Stone Fair about best-practice examples of how companies and associations make their material palatable to consumers

“Velata“ by Raffaello Galiotto for Margraf: snapshot of when the wind has driven under a tablecloth, pushing the fabric away on one side and letting it flutter on the other

On the 50th aniversary of Dellas company, the magazine Apuo Versilia Produce (#135) has made an interview with the company focusing on diamond tools

Citco at Salone del Mobile 2023: artistic stone objects, the kind you might use as accents in a home interior

Designers were Ron Arad, Fabrizio Bendazzoli, Estudio Campagna, Zaha Hadid Design, and Citco Design

At the European Stone Festival in Salzburg, stonemasons and sculptors will show how they turn their ideas into small sculptures

During the weekend from June 03 and 04, 2023, the venue will be the Kapitelplatz, close to the cathedral

In his book “Kulturgeschichte des Mühlsteins“ (Cultural History of the Millstone), former CEO Harald Marschner tells of the thick round stones, how they came out of the quarries and how the millers knew how to work with them

Sensation finds from Jordan and Saudi Arabia: carvings in stone are the oldest construction plans of humanity

The depictions describe so-called desert kites, which are long stone ramparts for catching animals in the former savannah

Peters Corner: what it means for the natural stone sector that Polycor, with more than 50 quarries and 20 factories in Canada, the U.S. and France, has become one of the big fish in the business