(ANSA) - ROME, FEB 19 - A man dies crushed by a crane at a marble company at Carrara on Wednesday, the latest in a long spate of fatal workplace accidents in Italy. The man reportedly died instantly.

Carrara marble is one of the most prestigious marbles in the world. A slab can cost up to $400 per square meter, and over history, it has been used for some remarkable buildings. Think of the ...

Few, if any, industries in the world have a greater percentage of waste than marble quarrying as it is done in Italy, yet the famous Carrara deposits have been worked over 2,000 years, and ...

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At the foot of striking marble quarries in central Italy's Apuan Alps sits the village ... The stone extracted from outside the nearby city of Carrara, including from the white marble quarry ...

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And calacatta is one of the world's most expensive types of marble. It's more than double the price of carrara marble, yet mined in the same mountains. But the key to calacatta's price is its rarity.

The “Nello Carrara” Institute of Applied Physics (IFAC) is part of the National Research Council (CNR), which is the main public organisation pursuing research and innovation in Italy. IFAC carries ...

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