By Mark Lauzon
As our stone-fabrication company began to grow, one of the most-important and profitable things we did was to start taking photographs of our jobs. In not all that many years, I’ve shot literally thousands of images.
By Emerson Schwartzkopf
Unless you’re running a real bucket-shop operation, you’re proud of your work. So why are you hiding it?
By K. Schipper
Lower prices and greater availability went a long way toward putting natural stone slabs in the nation’s kitchens and bathrooms. Now, a new set of surfaces – walls, both indoor and outdoor – may be the new frontier with thin-veneer stone.
Thanks to diamond tooling, the last decade has seen the development of thin-veneer natural stone in thicknesses as little as ¾” suitable for interior or exterior use.
KEYSTONE, S.D. – Nobody insinuated that four of our nation’s finest have dirty mugs, but they’re getting a nice, hot face-scrubbing anyway. At Mount Rushmore National Monument, the four great faces carved in granite...
NEW YORK – Any homeowner can tell the difference between a granite countertop and nuclear materials, but sophisticated equipment used for security screening at U.S. ports apparently couldn’t, according to a report by the...
BOISE, Idaho – The federal Bureau of Land Management (BLM) needs to prepare an environmental impact statement on mining operations at the Three Rivers Stone Quarry near Clayton, Idaho, a federal district judge ruled...
CARRARA, Italy – Considering current trade-show competition and its own downward trend of attendance in recent years, CarraraMarmotec made an admirable showing in 2005 with a virtual repeat of last year’s performance. The twenty-sixth...
KARACHI, Pakistan – Stone quarrying is on the rise in Pakistan, growing at 20 percent annually for the last three years, according to the Daily Times of Lahore. Sanullah Khan, chairman of the All...
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