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Natural stone worldwide: how stone and sport come together and what stonemasons and creatives have made of the subject
In our overview article, we have once again collected all kinds of curiosities
Miscellaneous: news all around ornamental stone and rock
In January 2024, there was excitement in Bosnia in the area around Zavidovici about a stone ball with a diameter of 3.3 m and an estimated weight of 30 tons that was unearthed. It was probably just a “concretion“, an accumulation of mineral substances
The Tomb Prize of the Swiss canton of Basel-Stadt aims to bring art and craft together
The aim is to focus citizens’ attention on “individual and high-quality grave markers”
Walls or piles of fieldstones (drystones) are being restored in many places
They provide habitats for animals and plants and are evidence of rural culture / Examples from Switzerland and the New England states
The cemetery in the village of Saint-Antonin-sur-Bayon brings the drystone walls from the surrounding area into the burial site
It lies at the foot of the Sainte Victoire massif, to which Cézanne dedicated more than 80 paintings
Turkey’s natural stone exports in 2023: -7.63 % by value compared to the previous year
Declines in shipments to Europe are catastrophic and perhaps herald a new lack of interest in foreign materials among consumers there