Few, if any, industries in the world have a greater percentage of waste than marble quarrying as it is done in Italy, yet the famous Carrara deposits have been worked over 2,000 years, and ...

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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 ...

Wang and Lee Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: WLGS) today announced that its CEO, Mr. Joe Ho, and Ms. Kim Cheng, Director of NQ Marble Pty Ltd, will travel to Australia, within the next 10 days to conduct an ...

The Talladega Fire Department is actively responding to a wildfire near the intersection of Mt. View Road and Marble Quarry ...

The mining of marble is a highly specialized process that requires expertise to ensure the quality and integrity of the stone. Marble deposits are carefully identified, and the extraction process ...

Marble has been carved here since the Ancient Roman times, and because of its millennial history, the Carrara quarries have produced more marble than any other place on Earth. The market as a ...

Scholars estimate that in the time of Pericles, the Athenian leader who spearheaded the Parthenon's construction, workers cut 100,000 tons of marble from Pentelicon. The quarry remains a rich ...