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.

The marble quarries of the Apuan Alps float 3,200 feet ... a year waking up at 4 a.m. and lugging a 35mm camera around the stark landscape for his 15-minute short film about the mine’s ...

But the Rookery is different. An 1888 masterpiece of the Chicago school of architecture, the building is a commercial structure, not a house. It’s urban, not suburban (Hyde Park was considered ...

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 ...

• Mine & Quarry Volumes 1-5 by Sullivan Machinery Company “Marble Quarrying in Arizona” • Paige, Sidney, Marble Prospects in the Chiricahua Mountains, Arizona. 1909. Bulletin - United ...

However, the location (the Carrara Marble Mine in Tuscany) was a real working mine that came with its own set of challenges. “It was a dangerous environment because it’s a working mine, ...