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14. Global Wealth Report by Credit Suisse and UBS: gains in Latin Amerika, losses in North America

Much of the decline comes from the appreciation of the US dollar against other currencies

Miscellaneous: news all around ornamental stone and rock

On Saturn, megastorms occur approximately every 20 to 30 years and are similar to hurricanes on Earth, although significantly larger. But unlike Earth’s hurricanes, no one knows what causes them and why they last for hundreds of years

Fractal structures in the ammonoid shells millions of years ago gave the animals special protection from predators when they bit them

Marketing for natural stone (3): the sector is once again in danger of losing touch with materials considered modern

When the talk turns to contemporary building materials in public, no one automatically thinks of stone

FIOR DI PESCO CARNICO, a magnificent marble with a white or grey background and bright veins ideal for bookmatching, quarried by Italian Margraf company

Four monumental totems in stone adorn the access roads to a community in the French Haut-Languedoc mountain range, Pierre Actual reports (#9/2023)

A step in the direction of a circular economy: waste from marble quarries as aggregates for iron smelting

From Brazil comes a process to use fragments of marble extraction instead of limestone

On occasion of the 45th World Heritage Meeting in Saudi Arabia in September 2023, the issue #104 of Unesco’s World Heritage Magazin has been published

The Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk, Virginia, returned an original Bakor monolith to Nigeria

The mysterious artwork originates from stone circles in today’s Cross River State and probably depicts an ancestor figure

The Stone+tec 2024 will include the new Tile+tec with ceramic products

The next natural stone exhibition from June 19 to 22 in Nuremberg will cover all areas of tile culture