Hippies in a slate quarry in Wales are celebrating four decades of green revolution, having transformed the character of a local town, pioneered new energy technologies and constructed a water-powered railway. The Centre for Alternative Technology (Cat) near Machynlleth also created hundreds of jobs and a tourist attraction that draws in around 70,000 visitors a […]
El sector de la pizarra en Galicia cerró el 2014 con un incremento del 4 % en el volumen de exportación (el mercado nacional es residual) sobre el ejercicio anterior. Es un dato en positivo, con esas 470.317,15 toneladas de piedra natural vendidas al extranjero, que supuso un volumen de negocio de más de 252 […]
En la producción de pizarra aparentemente nada es fácil. Ni sondear la cantera para saber qué parte ofrecerá los mejores bloques, ni extraerlos, ni transportarlos, ni mucho menos exfoliarlos para su aprovechamiento total. Por eso, en España, que es el primer exportador del mundo en pizarra, las empresas que trabajan con esta piedra natural, casi […]
Dear International Readers, I would like to share with you the American Slate Story in a series of monthly articles. Lets start by going back to the early days of slate in the United States. “Once upon a time" in a far away land called Vermont, one of the first states in Early America, a […]
A selection of historic photographs of the North Wales’ slate industry have gone on show in Gwynedd. Pictures gathered from Wales’s national collections are on display in the Images of Industry exhibition at the National Slate Museum in Llanberis. The photographs – many of which have never been seen before – show the moving of […]
ON AIME Ses irrégularités la rendent unique et poétique ! Douce et vivante au toucher, l’ardoise dégage une émotion brute. Tout en robustesse, elle décline des variations de gris à l’infini comme un ciel du Nord. A chaque pierre, ses teintes, ses reliefs, ses motifs que vous ne retrouverez nulle part ailleurs. Facile d’entretien, elle […]
L’ardoise rouge et l’ardoise violette sont des pierres particulièrement difficiles à travailler – pouvant abîmer les scies et autres équipements – mais offrant des couleurs riches et uniques entre autres par la présence d’hématite et d’oxyde de fer. On y trouve parfois même des tâches de vert : on parle alors d’ardoises “Mottled Purple” lorsque […]
The requirement for good quality, low maintenance and an aesthetically pleasing end result led to Cembrit’s Contessa natural slates being specified for Denbury Mews, a new unique development in Devon. The slates have ensured a high class appearance for the fifteen houses and coach houses and the product’s versatility was the perfect answer to the […]
Bounce Below will open next month at Llechwedd in Blaenau Ffestiniog– the world’s first facility of this kind. The caverns, twice the size of St Paul’s Cathedral, will be lit up in a light show while visitors bounce on giant trampolines linked by a 60ft long slide. People will be delivered to the deep attraction […]
Slate. It is part of the look and feel of Wales, and now there are efforts to have its iconic status more formally recognised on the international stage. Experts want it listed as one of the great natural stones to have had an impact on human culture the world over. Since Roman times, the […]
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