Carrara | OPP1

The Carrara white marble is the marble par excellence.
Since its discovery, this rock, has been the most appreciated by artists and architects who have used it for the construction of some of the most famous monuments in the world.
Carrara white is an Italian marble and it comes from a small area in Tuscany. It is a metamorfic rock consisting mainly in calcium carbonate. The Carrara white, like the Calacatta gold and most white marbles coming from the Carrara area, can present some small holes called “taroli” in the local dialect.
The “taroli”, these small holes, are typical for dry, crystalline and clear materials.
In the stone sector these holes are considered acceptable if the diametre is not larger than 5 mm. Therefore, the “taroli” are not considered defects but “a particular state of the marble nature”
of some materials with a composition of more than 90% calcium carbonate and with an imbibition coefficient of approximately 0.02%.