Open pit marble quarry worked in benches in Turkey
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How Marble Is Made: From Quarry Block to Finished Slab

How Marble Is Made: From Quarry Block to Finished Slab Most buyers meet marble at the end of its journey: a polished slab standing in a warehouse, or a photograph in an email. Everything that determined how that slab looks – its colour, its vein direction, whether it will survive being moved and loaded – […]

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How to Inspect Marble Slabs: A Field QC Guide

How to Inspect Marble Slabs: A Field QC Guide Accepting or rejecting a shipment of marble slabs usually comes down to a few hours spent on the factory floor. In seventeen years of field inspections, I have found that almost every problem that surfaces after a container is loaded could have been caught beforehand — […]