When Nature created this section of the Apuan Alps, she formed a storehouse of marble that is truly ... In recent years the quarries of Carrara have had an annual aggregate output of about 200,000 ...

The marble extraction basin of the Province of Massa-Carrara in Italy is known for ... But, it is also a place of environmental devastation. The Apuan Alps, where the mining is happening, are ...

Carrara marble is ... The luxury stone comes the Apuan Alps, a mountain range in northern Tuscany that stretches for 58 km and reaches 2,000 meters high. Marble has been carved here since the ...

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At the foot of striking marble quarries in central Italy's Apuan Alps sits the village of Colonnata ... The stone extracted ...

The white marble mountains of the Apuan Alps formed over 200 million years, and while the quarries have been in use since Roman times, recent developments in extraction processes have turned the ...

And calacatta is one of the world's most expensive types of marble. It's more than double the price of carrara marble, yet mined in the same mountains. But the key to calacatta's price is its rarity.