Sources of Stone: Afghanistan
Hidden in the rugged Hindu Kush and the Pamir mountain ranges of Afghanistan, there’ a great wealth of mineral resources: deposits of some of the world’s finest marble.
Category: Sources of Stone
The inside stories from exporting countries.
Domestic Quarrying: Just Say USA?
By K. Schipper
Dimensional stone today may seem like endless containers full of foreign-extracted granite, but there’s plenty of material from a source that’s easy to overlook – right here in the United States.
Responsible Stone: Quality Beyond Beauty
By Lloyd Henry
Child labor, slave labor and indentured labor seem like strange things to write about in the 21st century. However, the International Labor Organization (ILO) estimates that there are as many as 12 million people in the world who are slaves and another 200-million-plus children and adults in servitude or working under abusive circumstance.
Sources of Stone: Ireland, Part II
By Paul Daniel
For this report, contributing writer Paul Daniel visited almost all the leading Irish dimensional stone producers working today, and asked their opinions about the future.
Sources of Stone: Ireland, Part I
By Paul Daniel
For this report, contributing writer Paul Daniel visited almost all the leading Irish dimensional stone producers working today, and asked their opinions about the future.
Foreign Stone: A Grave Concern?
By K. Schipper
Less-expensive natural stone from overseas
helped fuel the boom in residential countertops and vanities in the
United States – and it’s also having their impact in what might be
called the last retail market as well.
In the monument
industry, consumers enjoy lower prices and a wider range of granite
colors in both custom and standard blanks. Wholesalers, however, are
being forced to cut profit margins and delivery times, while retailers
face the prospect that that overseas suppliers will begin to offer
finished products.
industry, consumers enjoy lower prices and a wider range of granite
colors in both custom and standard blanks. Wholesalers, however, are
being forced to cut profit margins and delivery times, while retailers
face the prospect that that overseas suppliers will begin to offer
finished products.
Brazil: Minas Gerias & Slate
By Roseli Perrone
PAPAGAIO, Minas Gerais, Brazil – The Dimension Stones Industries Association of Minas Gerais State (SINROCHAS-MG) and the Brazilian Association of the Dimension Stones Industry (ABIROCHAS), are involved in a program called Image Project to help the industry promote itself in the domestic and international markets.
Minas Gerias: The Slate Province
By Cid Chiodi
The world production of slates is estimated at 4 million tons per year, with 1.1 million tons per year being transacted in the international market. Brazil, through its Minas Gerais State, already occupies the second place in both production (Spain is first) and consumption (France is first), and is the second-largest exporter (after Spain).
The Dimensional of Canada
By Paul Daniel
It’s extremely big, cold in the winter, has six time zones, the maple leaf is the national symbol, and it’s a member of the G8. And, on top of that, Canada has great dimensional stone.
Brazil: Adjustment and Creativity
By Roseli Perrone
CACHOEIRO DO ITAPEMIRIM, Brazil – This city, 120km south of Vitória in the state of Espírito Santo, has always been know as the place where granite and marble were processed, although only marble is encountered in the region.