MARBLE, Colo. (CBS4) - It's the only active quarry in Colorado that mines the state stone -- white marble -- and it's about to get bigger. Work is now under way to double the size of the quarry to ...

Giuseppi Moretti, the Italian sculptor who created the Vulcan for the 1904 World's Fair in St. Louis, Missouri, fell in love with Sylacauga marble, which he called "the finest white marble in the ...

The first recorded discovery of Alabama white marble was in 1814 when Dr. Edward Gantt was traveling through the state with Gen. Andrew Jackson and his army.