Inside Italy's $1 billion marble mountains
Two crossed lines that form an 'X'. It indicates a way to close an interaction, or dismiss a notification.The luxury stone comes the Apuan Alps, a mountain range in northern Tuscany that stretches for 58 km and reaches 2,000 meters high.The market as a whole is worth over $1.1 billion and produces 4 million tons of marble every year, with 13,000 people involved.
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 whole is worth over €1 billion and produces 4 million tons of marble every year, with 13,000 people involved. The quarries were even featured in a James Bond movie, with Daniel Craig driving an Aston Martin DBS up the marble slopes.
Depending on how they are extracted and on their veins, some marbles will be more expensive than others. For example, a slab of Statuario or Calacatta marble can cost over €10,000 per ton. The more expensive one is usually the type of marble that's exported. Last year, 1.2 million tons of blocks crossed the Italian border to China, the United States, and Germany as the top 3.
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