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EPDs for beginners: Sarah B Gregg from the Natural Stone Institute (NSI) explains what it is all about and why it is so important for stone companies

CRISTALLO, a super exotic white quartzite from Brazil, with delicate veins and a glassy appearance, quarried by Vitoria Stone group

Turkish Marble Trend magazine (#61) comments on the country’s decline in raw block exports by 18% in 2022 and concludes: “Somehow, you will always survive”

Douglas Goshomi is a representative of a new generation of artists from Zimbabwe, who take up the traditions of the country, but go new ways

Natural stone is his material, because he finds it everywhere

Australia’s chain of continental hotspot volcanoes is a unique laboratory for researchers to investigate processes leading to eruptions all over the globe

Erosion over tens of millions of years allows scientists to understand complete sequences of lava formation

Miscellaneous: news all around natural stone and rock

A United States Geological Survey webpage gives details on the Kahramanmaraş Earthquake that hit Turkey and Syria on February 06, 2023, with a magnitude of around 7.5

MICHELANGELO NUVOLATO®️, a white marble with golden veins, from Brazilian company Michelangelo, located in the Southern state of Paraná

Ernesto Matos: the 1998 World Exhibition in Lisbon as a playground for new ideas on Calçada Portuguesa (Portuguese Paving)

Geometric porcelain stoneware by Casalgrande Padana

The pentagons in three shades of grey allow many design variants for the Experimenta Science Centre’s floor in Heilbronn, Germany

The German company Bamberger Natursteinwerk has developed a collection of charging stations for e-cars

The prototypes are made of granite, and there is little or no waste during production

Rugby training center in the south of France (Pôle de Rugby du Grand Pic Saint Loup) made of solid (massive) natural stone: an expression of “strength, durability, timelessness and noblesse“

Limestone PIŃCZÓW, a beige stone with exceptional features, quarried in Western Poland by Marmur-Plytki company

Wood is not the only ecological material, writes Claude Gargi in the editorial of Pierre Actual magazine (April 2023). He strongly criticizes France’s President Emmanuel Macron

Bulgarian sculptor Rafail Georgiev creates monumental sculptures with a playful element

In his works he deals with the “relationship between man as logos (rationality) and nature as chaos (irrationality)“

Notre-Dame de Paris was the first building of its kind in which the builders relied on iron reinforcements throughout the structure

Several thousand metal staples were used to bind the stones together