In recent years the quarries of Carrara have had an annual aggregate output of about 200,000 tons. They supply the bulk of the marble used in Italy and Europe to-day for sculpture and other ...

Marble has been carved here since the Ancient Roman times, and because of its millennial history, the Carrara quarries have produced more marble than any other place on Earth. The market as a ...

Marble mining is a complex process that relies on powerful machinery to extract the stone from quarries. Heavy machines like bulldozers, excavators, and diamond wire saws are used to break and cut ...

“The results indicate that the marbles came mainly from the Prokonnesos and Dokimeion quarries in Turkey,” the authors wrote. A smaller number of objects were attributed to marble from ...