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Miscellaneous: news all around natural stone and rock

It is the meteor shower caused by the tail of the comet Swift-Tuttle, through which the Earth flies every year

Production of large amounts of biomass in pitch-black groundwater with rock as energy source

Some microorganisms are active even without sunlight

The stepwells in India are among the most unusual stone structures in the world

Geometrically complex staircases lead to the water reservoirs sometimes 30 m deep / Ornaments with diverse stone sculptures

AZURRA BAY, a grayish white quartzite with magnificent veins from Brazilian Vitoria Stone group

Xiamen Stone Fair is on the starting line for its 22nd edition

The in-person-event from July 30 to August 02 will be accompanied by a digital program available online as live stream or recorded

From Waste to Wonderful: Using Salvaged Limestone at the Houston Botanic Garden, is a new topic on the UseNaturalStone webpage

Once again, the IMIB Natural Stone Design Competition in Turkey was about marketable household products

For the tenth time, the competition took place in the categories of professionals and students

„Spotlight“ series by the Metropolitan Museum of Art: “Debunking the Myth of Whiteness“ tells where our image of sculptures comes from and what is behind it

“Marmolia“ is a serving platter on which, in addition to the food, the tableware itself is staged

Artist couple Cynthia Sah and Nicolas Bertoux of the Fondazione Arkad near Carrara turned to product design this time around

Italy’s stone sector was chosen as the country’s first industry branch to be internationally promoted by the new campaign titled “Italy is simply extraordinary: be IT”