The quarry which produced the stone for London's Marble Arch and Michelangelo's masterpiece David has been bought by Osama Bin Laden's family for £35million. The Al Qaeda chief, who died in 2011 at ...

The multinational construction conglomerate Saudi Binladin Group, owned by the family of the infamous al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, has paid €45 million ($60 million) to acquire half of the marble ...

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CENTURIES after becoming the favourite white stone of Roman emperors and sculptors down the ages – including Michelangelo and later Antonio Canova – the marble from Tuscany’s fabled Carrara quarries ...

It is the creamy white stone that built Marble Arch and was selected by Michaelangelo to give form to Christianity’s most cherished characters, including his masterpiece, David. But now, the Carrara ...

Located less than an hour’s drive from Camp Darby, Carrara is renowned for its marble quarries and rich artistic heritage. In fact, Michaelangelo’s famed statue, The David, was carved from Carrara ...

It was a day like no other. The toilets were golden, the guests were chartered in on private jets, and the flowers were stacked so high that only a sliver of sun peeked through. And the marble — the ...

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A bitter dispute has broken out between environmental campaigners, who say the quarries above the town of Carrara are a blot on the landscape and contribute to dangerous levels of erosion, and the ...

CLARENDON Neighbors of a Route 103 dolomite quarry heard the rumblings of quarry operations as blasting activities resumed this week following a lengthy hiatus. J.P. Carrara and Sons Inc. conducted ...