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Peter’s Corner: the Marmomac Icon Award of the year 2021, the plastic table lamp “Teddy Boy“ enlarged in stone, is a disaster for the entire sector

SAN BERNARDINO gneiss from the homonymous pass in the Swiss Alps, quarried at 1,950 m above sea level by Bärlocher Steinbruch Steinhauerei AG

The splendor of the floor mosaic of five million small stones in Hisham’s Palace in Jericho can now be seen from above

The complex, dating from the early days of Islamic art, has been roofed over and given an elevated walkway for tourists to enjoy

Science news: a mineral from interior Earth, Felsic volcanism in China and Permian mass extinction, Sierra Nevada’s rebirth, the Maya’s salt kitchens

Recent discoveries about our planet, its rocks, and other “stone” topics

Italy remains world leader as exporter of natural stone machinery and equipment

In 2020, the Corona pandemic brought a global decline in exports in this sector of (-)8% to US$ 2.042 billion

VAMOS! Natural Stone Institute Announces New Spanish Resource Page

Dr. Carlo Montani: the stone sector survived Covid-19 almost unscathed, and something has been happening in the global stone traveling circus for some years now

The master of statistics presented his assessments of developments in 2020 at Marmomac

PORFIDO ROSA SAR (Porphyry Rosa Sar) with striking red color, from company Porfidi Italia 2000

Cersaie 2021: the ceramics sector is continuing with recent trends, namely Greener-Larger-Digital

With the collection “Luce“, Iris Ceramica, showed the graphic play of light and shadow on the tiles without relief for its 60th anniversary

To build the siege ramp at Lachish in the ancient Kingdom of Judah, the Assyrian army organized the quarrying and transportation of about 3 million boulders from nearby sites

Probably, each little block of about 6.5 kg was conveyed from man-to-man by prisoners of war or forced labor

Miscellaneous: ideas all around rock and natural stone

Pink Stone Challenge is a Social Media campaign and linked to the US Breast Cancer Awareness Month, which is held every year

Now also for students and furthermore for projects from all over Europe: submission open for the German Natural Stone Award 2022

The entry fee has been reduced to 200 €, fee for students / Submissions in German language only

The mysterious stone spheres of Costa Rica probably defined power and dominion and gave mankind a sense of community

They were placed in the years from about 800 a.d. until the conquest by the Spanish in the 1500s

CALACATTA LS, a marble with yellow and grey veins from Spanish Mármoles Luis Sánchez company

The company Lovato from Italy’s Chiampo Valley manufactures saws with which it is possible to cut natural stone remnants for further use

Possible thicknesses from a minimum of 1 cm to a maximum of 10 cm and also corner pieces