New in our Stone Finder: CAFE LATTE DARK, a beige/bown marble (limestone) from Turkish Silkarstone company

With the Gargash Mosque in Dubai, Saudi architect Sumaya Dabbagh has created a place of worship that breaks with many traditions

Not splendor and wealth characterize the premises for the conversation with God, but light and spirituality

Xiamen Stone Fair 2022 has launched a new Hosted Buyers Program to bring together suppliers and decision-makers both in-person during the event and virtually all year in the event’s Cloud

NSI Announces Recipients of the 2021 Natural Stone Scholarship and Women in Stone Empowerment Scholarship

Miscellaneous: ideas all around natural stone

Nasa-scientists found evidence that a region of northern Mars called Arabia Terra experienced thousands of “super eruptions“

Traces of Solar flares in sediments under ancient towns are chronicles of the trade hundreds of years ago

Researchers have re-dated Viking-age commerce connections with regions in North Atlantic Norway, Frankish Western Europe and even the Middle East

Peter’s Corner: the prospects for the natural stone sector for 2022 are good, but it should have its own achievements in terms of “green“, not just profit from the material itself

New in our Stone Finder: MISTRAL, a light cream marble with irregular veins and high resilience from Spanish Levantina group

The ceramic industry is under extreme pressure due to energy prices

The manufacturers of artificial stones are also likely to be affected, because they use heat and pressure for production

Turkish Stone World (issue #112) reports about the ruins of Blaundos, the so called Turkey’s Stonehenge