The research investigates the relationships between architecture and stone extraction in Rio de Janeiro, stories of a gradual rise that, after its peak in the 19th century, report the decline of this long protagonism in relation to other construction techniques. In this sense, the Glória hill, its church (1730) and its access (1960), made by ramps, stairs and plateaus, are fundamental parts of the narrative arc of a city-quarry. Manipulate the human-mineralogical composition of these fragments also means to imagining a metamorphic reactivation capable of thinking about the so-called Mineralocene beyond the minerals exploited as fuel or precious metals. In other words, it is to place countless stone architectures at the center of the modern-colonial space in the Americas. By tensioning its solid and missing fragments, we provoke an architectural tradition that values what is apparently eternal, that bets exclusively on the gigantic scale of industrial scalability and that communicates through an alienated materiality. It is, therefore, a cartography in deep time, a critical and speculative intertwining of geological and mineralogical cycles that, among other things, tension the servile instrument of a process of domination, extraction and destruction on a global scale, submissive to capitalist logic and represented by the construction industry. When we look at this material that actively participated in the construction of a hegemonic narrative about the city of Rio de Janeiro, we can ask ourselves: what other stories could be told from stone?