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TexasTowelie

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Sun Feb 23, 2025, 08:19 AM Feb 2025

Mining the world's most precious marble in Italy - DW News [View all]



The statuary marble used by Michelangelo is mined in a Tuscan mega quarry where marble is sliced from solid rock at an altitude of around 1,000 meters.
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