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While exploring an old marble mine, we stumbled upon something incredible - a hidden cave lined with crystals. What started as a routine explore quickly turned into a surreal underground discovery. In ...
Michelangelo, Da Vinci, Bernini and Rodin all sourced their marble here. By the 19th century, the terrible working conditions of the mines made Carrara a cradle of anarchism in Italy.
To be sure, it’s not a very big part–just a few dozen acres on a 400-acre tract in the Vermont mountains where the company wants to dig a marble mine. Still, Smith, head of the group ...
The mine’s operating proposal says that up to 10 heavy trucks could be needed per day to haul out marble and alabaster at peak production. Hagedorn said the mine has a lot more potential to disturb ...
For those who haven’t seen the Wintergarten Marble Machine, it’s a piano organ-sized contraption made out of birch plywood, some Lego Technic sets, and 2,000 marbles.
MONDULKIRI, Cambodia — In a rare win for conservationists and Cambodia’s Indigenous communities, the Ministry of Environment has opted to suspend a planned marble mining operation within a ...