General Articles for Stone Industry
Black is beautiful
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.
Cipollini Marbles from Toscana (Italy)
In the international panorama of countries extracting and processing stone, Italy occupies a very relevant position.
Integral study of travertine of San Juan, Argentina
San Juan is one of the three provinces most important producers of marble in Argentina, along with Cordoba and Buenos Aires.
Record Lithography: Quarry of Solnhofen used as printing plate
More than two centuries ago in the history of lithography, natural stone was brought to the printing press. On August 4th and 5th last year, however, for the first time it was the other way around, and, as a result, the world biggest lithography was produced.
BLACK GALAXY, Galaxy in granite
In the Galaxy of stone there has been one star that has been shining brightly for over 15 years now. This star is none other than the Indian granite, "Black Galaxy'. This granite from India is also known by various other names including Star Galaxy, Galaxy granite,Ongole Galaxy etc.
Ancient Greek Marbles - some still used today (II)
This is the second part of our report that began in Litos no. 60 of May 2002, on the marbles in Ancient Greece that were used in the classical age in the elaboration of monuments that constitute the cultural patrimony of an entire civilisation, and some of which continue to be used today.