I visited an active quarry in the Apuan Alps of Carrara, Italy — home to the coveted Carrara marble. Located in Tuscany, Carrara marble is a $1 billion industry thanks to hard workers at the quarries.

Take a tour through Omya’s Middlebury marble quarry, and you are stepping millions of years into the past, to a place where intense pressure and heat created a thick layer of metamorphosed calcium ...

PARACHUTE, Colorado ” Photographer Ron Bailey found inspiration 300 feet inside of the Colorado Yule Marble Quarry in Marble. It was on a tour of the quarry in the fall of 2002 when Bailey heard ...

CARRARA, Italy — Make sure you come prepared. You need sunglasses or the bright sun reflecting off the towering white marble walls that surround you in the mountains overlooking Carrara will blind you ...

Two contrasting perceptions of rock collide in a marble quarry.Marble is the stuff of polished floors, stoic mausoleums and priceless ancient sculptures. It’s an enduring, regal sort of rock that ...

A Colorado-based corporation hopes to be quarrying stone in Marble by mid-July, in time for the tiny Crystal River Valley town’s centennial. Rex Loesby, of Englewood, founder and president of Sierra ...

All Things Considered is taking listeners on a tour of the best swimming holes in the country — including one in Dorset, Vt., where an old marble quarry now attracts swan divers and belly floppers.