Tourists and residents alike, can’t have failed to notice the black tiles on the roofs of Luxembourg City buildings . To learn the origins, we need to take a trip close to the Belgian border, and over 400 years back in time. Tourists and residents alike, can’t have failed to notice the black tiles on […]
Ce lithophone portable contient de 3 octaves (36 notes). Il est fabriqué avec des ardoises (schistes ardoisiers) permo-carbonifères vieilles de 285 millions d’années. Elles proviennent de la carrière de Dorénaz en Valais (Suisse). C’est la version portable du grand lithophone réalisé pour la nuit des musées 2014 au musée de géologie de Lausanne. Avec mes […]
El Museo del Prado exhibe cuadros que grandes pintores del renacimiento realizaron sobre Piedra. Es la primera vez que dedica una muestra en España y y de las pocas que se han realizado en el mundo de óleos realizados sobre pizarra o mármol banco porque su dificultad y el tiempo que requería la técnica nos […]
Naturpiedra Jbernardos exporta aproximadamente el 85% de la producción de pizarra, filita y cuarcita de sus canteras segovianas, tal y como informó su gerente, David Bernardos, durante la presentación del libro “Valor histórico y arquitectónico de las canteras de Bernardos”, celebrada el pasado 5 de mayo. El acto fue presentado por David Bernardos, quien explicó […]
This month, the spanish customs have finnaly issued the 2017 report of roofing slate export from Spain to the rest of the world. Spain is by far the biggest producer in the world for Roofing Slates with 503.000 tons (20.500 containers) produced in 2017. In total, between all the countries, it shows 2.5% less in […]
José Luis Aceves explica que la iniciativa socialista tiene como objetivo instar a la Junta a realizar un Plan de Ordenación y Modernización de “un sector castigado por la crisis” El Pleno de las Cortes debatirá hoy una Proposición No de Ley (PNL) del PSOE de apoyo al sector de la pizarra. El secretario provincial […]
The cottages were built around a slate mine where quarrying dates back to the 16th century. There has been strong interest in buying up an entire historic slate community in rural Gwynedd after it went up for sale in June. Homes and cottages at Aberllefenni, near Machynlleth, were on the market with Dafydd […]
Généralement utilisée pour la couverture des toits, l’ardoise a de nombreux autres usages, souvent méconnus. Elle peut être utilisée en dalles sur les terrasses, sur les toitures plates, mais aussi en bardage. La France demeure l’un des premiers marchés mondiaux pour l’ardoise. Le marché français concentre à lui seul 30 % de la production mondiale, […]
Since my earliest days I’ve had a passion for exploring abandoned places. To begin with it was family holidays spent in our caravan which provided me with ample opportunity to visit castles, monasteries and all sorts of industrial fare but it was our time staying in north Wales which perhaps had the biggest impact. Surrounded […]
The slate extracted from these Pennsylvania quarries was once hailed as the finest in the world. Named after an 18th century Pennsylvania rock quarry, Peach Bottom slate was once hailed as the finest building slate in the world. For over a century, immigrant Welsh quarrymen and their decendants helped extract it from the hills along […]
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