Marek Marzec, a 48-year-old father of three, tragically passed away after developing silicosis, a terminal lung disease ...

Campaigners have issued fresh calls for a ban on trendy quartz worktops which have been linked to a spate of cases of deadly ...

The UK's health and safety watchdog has issued guidance on engineered stone after the deaths of workmen from an aggressive ...

The TUC - representing 5.5 million workers across the UK - has backed a ban on engineered stone amid mounting concern over ...

TRENDY fake stone worktops should be banned to prevent more deaths among young people, unions have demanded. The engineered ...

It requires that the vitreous modification of a substance should be harder than the crystalline ... of vitreous silica to be less hard than either of the principal faces of quartz.

Two Australian beaches known for their pristine sands, crystal-clear waters, and unique natural features have been crowned ...

With its glistening azure waters and silica-white sands, Queensland’s Whitehaven Beach has been crowned the best beach on Earth for 2025. It’s not the first time this otherworldly beach has topped ...

On the back of calls for stone worktops to be banned, the Health & Safety Executive (HSE) has issued new guidance.

"Instead, because of the work I did cutting quartz worktops ... term lung disease caused by inhaling large amounts of crystalline silica dust, usually over many years. Once inside the lungs ...

The crystal is made from fused quartz, one of the most thermally and ... data into self-assembled nanostructured voids within the silica (hence “5D”). This kind of memory crystal is called ...