In the north-east of Cambodia, 300 km from its capital Phnom Penh, can be found the capital of the ancient Khmer empire, Angkor. Hidden during centuries in the middle of the jungle, it was totally isolated from the rest of the world until the year 1860 when French missionaries discovered it.
The Macael Businessmen Provincial Association, last 21 November, awarded the XIX edition of the annual Marmol awards. In the following pages we publish images of the winning projects in different categories.
Award to the architect
Architect: César Portela Fernández-Jardón
Award for project realised in Macael Marble in Spain
Antonio Molina, Centro Tecnológico del Mármol, Murcia (Spain)
Since a long time we have been hearing about the marking EC, a measure that will now soon be obligatory for some products of stone from 1 October this year. Perhaps there are some professionals who do not know what exactly it consists of and in what way it will affect them. What is the marking EC? Why is it important? These are the questions addressed in the following article.
The boss's bellowing request "get me some plain black granite" may sound reasonable on the telephone. After all, there are few plain uniformly black limestones fit for an exterior facade; uniform black slate has not the strength specified; both tend not to be colourfast and need exacting fading tests because of their essentially carbonaceous or bituminous pigmentation.
Yuri Sychov
Every day around 9 million passengers on Moscow's Metro become unwitting visitors to a unique "stone show". The idea of creating a relaxing environment underground through the extensive use of decorative stone cladding and flooring was first put into practice in 1935. Today there are 162 stations and stone decor is featured at most of them. Yuri Sychov reports.
Claire Sentry
A memorial garden to all the victims of 9/11 opens in London in September 2003. It will provide a focus for the grief of 63 UK families, many of whom have no grave or headstone to visit since the bodies of their loved ones, and those of most of the 3000 killed, have never been recovered.
Note by editors - This article was written in 2004, it needs to be read in the historical context and not a reflection if today's market condition. Sept 2020
Fashion, a 26% annual increase in house prices and the emergence of the bathroom as the new home hot-spot, have stimulated UK sales in natural stone tiling for the home. Claire Santry reports.
This is not Raw Silk from China to make exquisite fabric for the fashion designers of the world. This is the fashionable granite from India that the Chinese are fond of!
Raw Silk is among the most imported granites into China from India after Black Galaxy, Ruby Red and Tan Brown.
Raw Silk Granites is basically of two types:
Raw Silk Ivory quarries are located in a village by name Varchur located approximately 26 kms. from Madurai city in the Southern State of Tamilnadu, India. Madurai city can be reached by flights from Madras (Chennai).
In most parts of the world, stone extraction is usually done in countries with moderate climates, or, where the weather can become hot, extremely hot in the summer. The word “quarry”, for most in the stone industry, is thus synonymous with heat and dust and sweat, with problems of dehydration for the worker, lack of water, etc. But, on this planet earth, stone is also extracted in extreme temperatures, the word extreme signifying not very heat but very cold.
