Carrara marble is one of the most prestigious marbles ... the United States, and Germany as the top 3. The marble that stays goes to local businesses and artisanal workshops, which are distributed ...

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 ...

Consisting of over 150 quarries, the marble mountains of Carrara are truly a sight to behold ... to ensure you reach the top ...

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.