Marble quarries, Carrara, Tuscany, Italy, Europe

Ancient Propylaea building entrance, The Acropolis, UNESCO, Athens, Greece

Open cast marble mine, Greece, Europe

Quarry for highly prized Pearl Marble, a major export, used in the Kennedy Center New York, Custonaci, Trapani, Sicily, Italy, Europe

Quarry for highly prized Pearl Marble, a major export, used in the Kennedy Center New York, Custonaci, Trapani, Sicily, Italy, Europe

Marble quarry, Greece, Europe

Blocks being cut in a marble quarry used by Michaelangelo, Apuan Alps, Tuscany, Italy, Europe

Carrara marble, Tuscany, Italy, Europe

Marble quarry, Carrara, Tuscany, Italy, Europe

The Skye marble quarry at Torrin on the Strathaird Peninsula, Isle of Skye, Scotland, United Kingdom, Europe

Mechanical shovel excavator at work in the marble stone pit of Carrara Tuscany Italy

Mechanical shovel excavator in the marble stone pit of Carrara Tuscany Italy

Mechanical shovel excavator in the marble stone pit of Carrara Tuscany Italy

Mechanical shovel excavator in the marble stone pit of Carrara Tuscany Italy

Illuminated columns at an incineration plant, Stuttgart, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany

Cave di Fantiscritti, marble quarry near Carrara, Massa-Carrara Province, Tuscany, Italy, Europe

Stone bridge in the marble stone pit of Carrara Tuscany Italy