The rare marble used by Michelangelo is mined in a huge Tuscan quarry where panels are cut from solid rock at an altitude of around 1,000 meters. DW. World's most precious marble mined in a ...

At the foot of striking marble quarries in central Italy's Apuan Alps sits the village of Colonnata (pictured above) – a quaint place famed for its pork lard and quarry workers. The stone ...

The quarry has been active for more than 100 years and is the largest underground marble quarry in the world, stretching over a mile long and covering twenty-five acres.

But slow times were on the horizon. World War II slowed the “nonessential” marble industry. In late 1941 the Yule Marble quarry closed and the tracks of the Crystal River and San Juan Railroad were ...

Giuseppi Moretti, the Italian sculptor who created the Vulcan for the 1904 World's Fair in St. Louis, Missouri, fell in love with Sylacauga marble, which he called "the finest white marble in the ...

The quarry presents a perfect state of preservation. The marble used was extremely appreciated by the Romans. It was used for public and private buildings. .Strabone defined this type of marble as ...

Deep in the bowels of Treasure Mountain above Marble, quarry workers are searching for a massive block of perfect white marble to replace one of the nation’s most prominent military symbols: the Tomb ...

From the marble mountains to the Pieta in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican to the Christus and the 12 Apostles at the Visitors Center of the Rome Italy temple, Giacomo Massari and his team ...

The Lower Quarry kiln complex, adjacent to Coolidge Drive, consists of three pot kilns, each with four doorways. In 1861, a single taller “continuous kiln” was built nearby.

The Colorado Yule Marble Quarry near Marble is under new management. Quebec-based Polycor Inc. announced last week that it has acquired the assets and rights associated with the quarry from Centennial ...

Work has resumed at the Yule Marble Quarry in Marble under new ownership, ending a 10-month closure for the historic facility that has produced stone for the Lincoln Memorial and ...

Earth Incredible images tell the tale of the world’s most prized marble. In Land of Marble, photographer Alessandro Gandolfi explores the past and future of Italy's striking marble quarries. By ...