The Colorado Stone Quarries above Marble aren’t what they used to be — and as far as the new owners are concerned, that’s a good thing. The rambling, cathedral-like chambers in the historic section ...

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 ...

Most early marble quarry sites in the area developed at outcroppings where the marble was on or just below the surface. Development of the marble industry was gradual and secondary to other ...

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.

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 the Tomb of the ...

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 ...

LEE — One of Lee's older industries received a new lease on life last spring, when Nicholas L. Lucchese of Tuckahoe, N.Y., began refurbishing the marble quarry off Marble Street. Refurbishing was no ...

The Tomb of the Unknowns currently on display is a replacement for the original block that came from the Yule Quarry in Marble, Colorado in the early 1920's. Its marble suffers from significant cracks ...