In this video, we reveal the intricate process of how marble is extracted from quarries and transformed ... for precise cutting and finishing to turn rough stone into polished, high-quality ...

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 ... in blocks in the rough or in the finished form.

Over the past 30 years, more marble has been extracted than during the previous two millennia. From the port of Marina di Carrara, a few kilometres from the quarries, it is shipped across the globe.

Stone from the Yule Marble Quarry in Colorado's Crystal River Valley was used in the construction of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. The quarry is ...

They are carved from the dazzling pink-white marble from Candoglia quarry near Lake Maggiore northwest ... First, Calderino, 46, makes a rough outline in the marble with his chisel.