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With pickaxe into modern times II: Quarrying of Marés at the Balearic Islands

Posted on February 15, 2012 by Per Storemyr

As a follow-up of my two recent articles on traditional quarrying of sandstone and soapstone, here is an exciting film about manual extraction of Piedra de Marés at Menorca. Marés is a soft, yellowish biocalcarenite (calcareous sandstone), widely used since … Continue reading →