Why Calacatta Marble Is So Expensive | So Expensive

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Michelangelo's famous "David" sculpture was carved out of marble. The iconic material has been used for centuries by artists and designers alike. 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.
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@darrena2625 Жыл бұрын

Imagine cutting and moving a block of marble the size required for "David" and moving it to Michelangelo in his time. Now that is mind-blowing.

@florianwappel4968 Жыл бұрын

imagine building a few pyramids 4000 years before that

@cheysheefel7584 Жыл бұрын

Ain’t that crazy! People are genuinely so uneducated that we don’t even think about those things and just how crazy that is!

@FunSkipping Жыл бұрын

You do realize there are marble deposits all over the world it isn't something that is specific to one region, some regions are known for their marble deposits like china, spain, india, and italy, and they likely didn't have to climb mountains back when this stuff wasn't being harvested to suit the needs of a 7 billion populous (World wide). It was probably found in huge boulders back then all over the place by these mountains.

@soumiksaha8484 Жыл бұрын

@@FunSkipping No, India's famed Makrana marble comes from quarries like this.

@jakoblarson4714 Жыл бұрын

@@cheysheefel7584 and the fact it would take us hundreds of years nowadays to build the pyramids and some say it's not even possible. They did it all in a lifetime

@yalz302 Жыл бұрын

This Series could report about any product now considering how everything became expensive.

@Numbskulli Жыл бұрын

“Why gas is so expensive” would be interesting, but depressing

@parsaledm Жыл бұрын

Have it covered in one video titled: Why Is Everything So Expensive

@cream422 Жыл бұрын

"why air is so expensive"

@robbieaulia6462 Жыл бұрын

@@parsaledm don't they have the "So Expensive" Marathon videos?

@delvinrequena8014 Жыл бұрын

Why is bread so expensive lol

@XxMGOKillerxX Жыл бұрын

As an estimator at a countertop company I can confirm people pay absurd prices for Calacatta Gold, having done an estimate recently where the material alone was $22k for a single slab.

@IdesofMarch223 Жыл бұрын

Wow, were they paying for just one slab total or more? That’s absurd.

@XxMGOKillerxX Жыл бұрын

@@IdesofMarch223 Just the price of 1 slab was $22k the whole job was over $150k.

@josehernandez-kl5yn Жыл бұрын

that's true! we just to pay $15,000 per slab back on 2007. RUSSIANS LOVE THEM.

@allysonand Жыл бұрын

@@josehernandez-kl5yn hey I don’t LOVE calacutta….

@grqfes Жыл бұрын

@@IdesofMarch223 yes that's absurd to us. To them, it's an hour of works wage.

@Vorusen Жыл бұрын

Something tells me 95% of the people who have calacatta countertops wouldn't be able to tell the different between theirs and 4 other white marble counters if held side by side. Like to rich people enjoy being scammed or is it just a flex? Because getting "Calacatta Gold" looks like the pieces they would normally deem unworthy of selling but some people are dumb enough to eat that shit up at a higher price so why not sell it to them as "an exclusive luxury item"

@richardnemeth5911 Жыл бұрын

100% truth. That gold mark looks nasty, not desirable, but that's the genius of marketing. Instead of throwing away a few pieces, they profit many times more from them than the other regular flawless inventory.

@Half_Finis Жыл бұрын

Rich people can afford to be scammed :)

@craigalchin272 Жыл бұрын

Don’t be a hater, just because your not in the position to afford stuff like this

@user2144 Жыл бұрын

@@craigalchin272 You’re, not your

@maverick2377 Жыл бұрын

@@craigalchin272 We're happy to be in a positioned to not be scammed. You can literally buy the same looking product for much cheaper. These slabs are for materialistic people that have lost sense with reality

@johnster02 Жыл бұрын

it’s not even a good surface for a countertop that’s what’s crazy about it. i looked into buying a counter and prices and it stains the easiest, chips easily, looks pretty but there are knock off surfaces that look identical and don’t crack when you put a hot pan on them. marble is soft which makes it great for statues, not countertops.

@Wreckz_Tea Жыл бұрын

I had a job at a marble and quartz slab company and did everything in the video other than the extraction process. I cut slabs, sealed and polished and it was a really cool job. Amazing process from start to finish. Unfortunately I had a serious lack of training and was just let loose to run machines that consistently broke down daily and nobody around who could fix them. I unfortunately was eventually fired because I was forced to run the machines in manual mode which vacuum suction the blocks to pick them up and stack them after they are finished and when suction cups failed I would inevitably drop slabs and shatter them. If that place had better management and decent equipment I would still be there today and would have no plans to leave. If you ever get the opportunity to get a job doing that stuff you should jump on it bc it's so cool. Now I'm a locomotive mechanic and have good management...quite the change in career

@Janken_Pro Жыл бұрын

Quite a story

@Wreckz_Tea Жыл бұрын

@@Janken_Pro yea...

@Apolloneek Жыл бұрын

I mean obviously if your now a heavy mechanic why wouldn't you press them to hire a maintenance tech or have them pay you to maintain and fix I would have pressed and kept pressing and kept record

@BroBurg445 Жыл бұрын

Nice that it worked out

@carochan86 Жыл бұрын

Did you learn to fix locomotives on the job?

@JayEssential Жыл бұрын

I work with Calacatta marble but on a smaller scale. I’m a tile setter and there’s been projects where I’ve worked with Calacatta, had to spend almost $100 on a diamond tipped blade for my wet saw so the cuts come out clean and don’t chip the marble. These tiles were retailed at $600 a box and there only a quantity of 4 per box and the dimensions are 12x24. Scary material to work with when you keep the value in mind 😭💯

@TunjungUtomo Жыл бұрын

Lots of pressure not to f-up, yeah?

@fashowallday4073 2 ай бұрын

Better make that shower perfect boi

@michaeljeanrichard4 Жыл бұрын

Stuff like this is always incredibly fascinating because there's so much knowledge that is just passed from one person to the other and could be traced back to the very first person that discovered it and that's always been amazing to me

@spectre..74 Жыл бұрын

Wow u gave me a new perspective

@shaun_leo9377 Жыл бұрын

Literally talking to my wife about that same thought like it blows my mind that a species can learn to cut rocks off the side of a mountain with a blade made out of diamonds and water i guess we are pretty amazing after all

@silverpharoah388 Жыл бұрын

Yeah. I agree

@RobbyBabes Жыл бұрын

Sadly chances are humanity had much more knowledge WAY before this "first person" you refer to. We were probably wiped at least 12 thousand years ago. We might be learning and discovering all over again and in our own new ways.

@AdamJensen_ Жыл бұрын

@@RobbyBabes Not true, child. Humanity has been around for over 100,000 years. Probably even longer. Don't spread misinformation if you don't know what you're talking about.

@karenm19 Жыл бұрын

Can’t help but appreciate Sergio’s passion. His comment on how meticulous they are about the sealing process because a crack may turn black from catching dirt if used as flooring…even when the marble is out of their hands, he still cares about the value of it.

@TheMaleNurse777 Жыл бұрын

Screw sergio

@AdamJensen_ Жыл бұрын

@@TheMaleNurse777 No you.

@steveny6855 Жыл бұрын

Can we just appreciate the art on the crane at 0:43

@Prioslupus Жыл бұрын

"This step ensures that the marble has no flaws" except the mayor flaw of being filled with a man-made plastic.

@jjk4891 Жыл бұрын

Marble is porous. Sad that we have to fill it with plastic for everyday use. How ironic!

@jackjohnson6884 Жыл бұрын

Haha I said ew when they said, polyester resin

@BaibaVulgaris Жыл бұрын

What exactly does it change for you? Why the pain? Lmao

@lovemussb1940 Жыл бұрын

It’s the only thing you can put on it .

@snell9 Жыл бұрын

I had some black marble fitted and some of them break in the places they've glued during the cutting, it's shocking!

@blacklavoux Жыл бұрын

As an interior designer, this marble is very much overused to the point where i can’t appreciate the value anymore 😂

@fynkozari9271 Жыл бұрын

Humans can survive without marble. Nobody needs it, its not even a necessity. Marble is completely pointless.

@american7169 Жыл бұрын

I fabricate and install it so imagine how I feel... Lol

@airicadams1359 Жыл бұрын

I used to load slabs on the carts to go get cut for counter tops

@SeanMichaelUpton Жыл бұрын

I'm a bit more of dark smoke slate kind of man

@azul1964 Жыл бұрын

Many are fake - like the print the pattern on the surface

@SPLSE Жыл бұрын

It's not mentioned clearly, part of the reason why Calacatta is so expensive is that these quarries are owned by a very small group of families or organizations.

@lilmane1070 Жыл бұрын

lol, classic omission

@amauryramirez8301 Жыл бұрын

You mean if the quarries belong to the government, marble would be way cheaper…😂😂😂😂

@amauryramirez8301 Жыл бұрын

Calacatta is expensive because there is lots of people willing to pay the price to have it …

@Stitcherrr Жыл бұрын

As a marmor worker... Just don't use Calacatta for exterior use or countertop. It's a marble so anything acid will "attack" it (like rain / vinegar / lemon / tomato sauce) and the beautiful polish will disapear for a granular touch (but only where acid stayed). AND it will always be "dirty". Even if you wash it directly after a bad use, some time after, it will have stains of what you prepared on it. Same goes for cutting on it, it will make cavity. And hot plate will cause slits. Same goes for every marble and limestones (exceptions do exist but yes 99% of marble won't like it)

@ShatteredPlainsTransverser Жыл бұрын

Thank you labelling practical problems from it's use, this was super helpful to know

@Lawrence94 Жыл бұрын

I by no mean a professional in this field of work and my question may sound dumb but isn't the marble coated with resin/epoxy during the imperfections filling process? Does the coating get scraped away during the smoothing process?

@Stitcherrr Жыл бұрын

@@Lawrence94 It depends of the marble and the quarry, so not every marble is coated in Epoxy. But do not cut on or prepare raw food on epoxy surfaces, transfer between Epoxy and your food can happen. And even if it "protects" the stone, after some uses and wash, the Epoxy will "disappear". So if the problem of acid on it isn't in the first few years, it will happen after :) Sorry if my response is not well written, english is not my first language

@Pepsi-Mann21 Жыл бұрын

what is the best material for a countertop?

@Stitcherrr Жыл бұрын

@@Pepsi-Mann21 You can use granit, that's generally a safe (and natural) choice. Then you can use quartz composite (Brand like Compac / Diresco in Europe) or Dekton (extremly hard material).

@macrexold Жыл бұрын

I understand that marble is expensive and beautiful, but man I am just thinking what the first humans who discovered the mountains were thinking when they saw this mysterious weird looking mountain. I also curious about how it look back then.

@nickgreen2905 Жыл бұрын

I'm in Turkey and I literally hiked a mountain made if white, black, and red marble. From the outside it gets dirty so it isn't pure, shining polished marble. It just looks like you are walking and climbing on a dirty, slippery, white rock.

@darkstari Жыл бұрын

I saw this quarry in Italy few months ago. Coming from Finland I first thought it was snow! The mountain isn't that high and it starts at sea level basicly so after i saw these blocks in industrial site i knew I was in Carrara :D That was a good memory from trip that was otherwise so stressful

@petrescuework-difficultcas6581 Жыл бұрын

"It pollutes the drinking water for locals and experts say, if they don't stop, the problems even get worse. But the customers don't care." Yeah, humans pretty much explained in two sentences.

@kukulroukul4698 Жыл бұрын

it DOESNT pollute anything...thats STORIES of frustrated italians

@Emeraldnicki Жыл бұрын

Sad, but true

@shoheigoat4329 Жыл бұрын

I bet this quarry pays enough taxes to run the entire city

@tednorberto3086 Жыл бұрын

The fall of The Roman Empire. Could be. Ju know? 🤣

@fidgetspinner1050 Жыл бұрын

Its not the job of the customers to care, its the job of the producers

@BaconTomatoCheese Жыл бұрын

Absolutely beautiful material… I’ve done a lot of tile jobs with this, sometimes it’ll break, but the end results are worth the extra work

@DarrenGibbons-xi9fq Жыл бұрын

Same did 40000 tiles took me a year

@abdulrshaikh8905 Жыл бұрын

Man... We Indians thought it was Calcutta mines 😂

@ajazrander6391 Жыл бұрын

Bro Indian makrana marble way better then this you should have search for that in marbles it has highest Calcium count

@branc2658 Жыл бұрын

@@ajazrander6391 keep dreaming.

@MRT-co1sd Жыл бұрын

@@ajazrander6391 What’s good in India has been taken by the British already.

@mithun4491 Жыл бұрын

Uneducated people think like that not others

@abhayuttam4716 Жыл бұрын

See indian supremacy we always find someone indian around

@cheysheefel7584 Жыл бұрын

This is soooo cool! A marble mountain. This is going to sound crazy but I obviously knew marble was a rock, but I never knew it came from this! How crazy.

@shadeolivier9120 Жыл бұрын

Same

@eriklerougeuh5772 Жыл бұрын

marble is basically limestone heated, limestone is ancient hot sea bed, and the ehat come from volcanism. yet i find a less cool thing, i visited vietnam, and they litteraly raze their pretties marble mountain (the one like in ha long bay) for sell statue and marble stuff. i'm not opposed to mining, but i prefer they dig a hole instead that raze mountain :x and archeologist find that roman were using water mill saw tools for cut slice of marble for plate their building.

@mitchallen5819 Жыл бұрын

I've always wondered myself.

@jo-vf8jx Жыл бұрын

@@phlegmony Plate tonics

@sabrinalim5746 Жыл бұрын

Same

@wonkygustav4457 Жыл бұрын

I remember seeing miles of marble when I was travelling through India, it was quite an incredible sight.

@StarrTile Жыл бұрын

As a tile Setter who often works with marble in the past, this was very interesting, however nowadays it is faux marble porcelain which is kind of a shame

@JohnHausser Жыл бұрын

Used to be a real estate agent and most people (millennials include) still want it for kitchen countertops. Cheers from San Diego California

@jakelaurent6 Жыл бұрын

Makes sense, easy on the eyes and minimalistic while not being boring.

@TojiFushigoroWasTaken Жыл бұрын

I understand, it looks so exquisite

@tylerkent5251 Жыл бұрын

Engineered quartz is a more affordable and all around better option with the same final product.

@samsonsoturian6013 Жыл бұрын

Most people aren't picky about marble types

@fourdoorsmorehoes Жыл бұрын

@@tylerkent5251 it's like lab-made diamonds. there will always be people who prefer the real thing, and engineered quartz does have a few disadvantages over real marble

@tonypepperoni3157 Жыл бұрын

That marble cutting w the water is so satisfying

@darkstari Жыл бұрын

I was lucky to to see these mountains and quarries this fall when our flight to Pisa got transformed to Genova and we drove by in bus. Immediately I recognized this white carrara marble as i saw a document earlier this year of production. Really cool plaze and must be a precious for locals.

@FariLuvsEb Жыл бұрын

THIS IS CONTENT 💯🔥

@rootsofastrology6861 Жыл бұрын

As an Indian and a Bengali, at first glance I thought I read Calcutta! 😂

@jabedhossain9961 5 ай бұрын

Yeah, same mistaken for me

@donbush9091 Жыл бұрын

Beautiful marble Thanks for sharing

@werth.loureth.7563 Жыл бұрын

Sometimes, we can find a vein with a different color, that makes it more expensive: the red, white-pink or literrally green marble! The white marble is the most common, with the black one!

@rajeshupadhyay5683 Жыл бұрын

Well said! I am also here to learn how to invest after listening to a lady on tv talk about the importance of investing and how she made 7 figure in 3 month, somehow the video taught me nothing and left me even more confused, I'm a newbie and I'm open to ideas on how to invest for retirement

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@ketoswilly7581 Жыл бұрын

Financial management is a crucial topic that most tend to shy away from, and ends up haunting them in the near future

@davidhudson3001 Жыл бұрын

Investment now will be wise but the truth is investing on your own will be a high risk. I think it will be best to get a professional👌

@dr.ervingalen1777 Жыл бұрын

@@lezliewhicker8450Thank you, Going through her profile in her webpage, she smashed all her state certificate and accreditation🙏

@jakelaurent6 Жыл бұрын

Interesting to see this contrasted with the video on Carrara Marble from a year ago

@jbking6132 Жыл бұрын

In Alabama our state’s stone is Sylacauga Marble, it has been called the world’s whitest marble and has been mined for over 160 years. It’s interesting to see how Marble is mined in different parts of the world 🌎

@simonleeks7945 Жыл бұрын

I have seen bathrooms done in this marble it's the most beautiful craftsmanship I have seen! The bath that was made couldn't find any flaw and my colleagues and I where speechless!!

@ivan.457 Жыл бұрын

Those mountains look gorgeous. That's a lot of marble. It really makes me wonder how was all that originated and changing over the centuries...

@ericorton9600 Жыл бұрын

The entire series is just "It's rare and takes time to work with". Yeah, supply and demand. Thanks Business expert.

@britisharmedforcesmilsim3015 Жыл бұрын

Well done for pointing this out, you're so clever. What did you expect, for it be to magic? It's still interesting to see, some of these things I wasn't aware of. I'll admit most ultra-expensive things are just scams/for boasting in all honesty.

@chrisboelens2640 Жыл бұрын

I mean, yeah obviously we know the answer is going to be either "it's rare, takes a lot of work, or both" but it's about seeing the actual process behind it and realising *what* exactly they do that makes it rare/difficult and thus expensive.

@hariharansivan2585 Жыл бұрын

Or in the case of Japanese things, just take a normal thing and add 100s of process and quality checks to make it expensive

@ericorton9600 Жыл бұрын

@@hariharansivan2585 For the record, that's kinda why those Japanese things are so high quality.

@zackp8201 Жыл бұрын

very succinct. The ability to sum up well in very few words is a dying talent. not sarcasm.

@mza2195 Жыл бұрын

It is beautiful, but I don’t know if I would pay that much for it.

@freelancepear87kakkoka11 Жыл бұрын

i'd certainly pay for that if i was rich enough, if the price of my house ran at 100's of thousands of dollars then i wouldn't mind splurgin 10-50k$ on a kitchen counter top.

@tylerkent5251 Жыл бұрын

I work for a company that produces engineered quartz stone. We make many versions of Calacattas. They’re stronger and require less maintenance than natural stone. On top of that, they’re waaaaayyyyy more affordable.

@SuputraBharathi Жыл бұрын

@@tylerkent5251 may I know price ?

@JoseRamos-mv2ty Жыл бұрын

Ha you poor useless people.. my floors are made of this material... I dont know why how people can live poor

@bonteski2997 Жыл бұрын

@@freelancepear87kakkoka11 Its just polished stone.

@nimashahabshahmir2489 Жыл бұрын

0:07 his loud Italian gesture shows how mad he is over marble cracking haha 🤌

@michelemurphy3541 Жыл бұрын

My favorite is the marble with the color flaws…delicious and stunning. I want all the marble! Ha ha! Beautiful.

@solidacid1337 Жыл бұрын

I work with these plates, most of time I'm cutting them using a waterjet cutter. I used to work on hand polishing the edges but the waterjet is more fun.

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@solidacid1337 Жыл бұрын

@@swarupadhikari3198 the waterjet is in a closed box with ventilation. The water prevents most dust formation and the ventilation takes care of the rest 😉

@xxcommentator Жыл бұрын

Hard to imagine that people from the past cutting these without the help of power tools and then transporting huge chunks of these.

@itstoughtobehumaninaworldv1872 Жыл бұрын

I wanna see them cut it.

@WMSClips 7 ай бұрын

I use to work for a local trash company. Filled three trucks to total just over 36 ton! That was my PR! Informative Video! Well Done 👍

@ThomasNappo Ай бұрын

Best everything comes out of italy.. Cars..Clothes..Gold..Food..Leather..list goes on

@rockyroad7345 Жыл бұрын

It's rare like diamonds, which explains why there are hundreds of thousands of jewelry stores across the world full of diamonds.

@friedbanana69 Жыл бұрын

hahaha nice one

@oleksijm Жыл бұрын

The irony is that diamonds aren't rare.

@let_uslunch8884 Жыл бұрын

someone wanted to argue with me up and down about diamonds but industrial grade diamond drills are used to free the marble from the mountain. Diamond drills, bits, etc...are still standard in work like this. They're not up the side of a mountain with lasers quite yet.

@austinbevis4266 Жыл бұрын

Argue what about diamonds?

@let_uslunch8884 Жыл бұрын

their intrinsic value and so on.

@StuffandThings_ Жыл бұрын

@@let_uslunch8884 Well that usually has to do with jewelry grade diamonds, which are pretty worthless if not for all the hype. But, on the plus side, diamond mining for the jewelry grade stuff also yields large quantities of the industrial grade stuff, ensuring it remains at least somewhat affordable. Diamond grit tools are of course top notch for pretty much anything involving stone or metal and definitely have intrinsic value in their usefulness.

@RenegadeRanga Жыл бұрын

Straight off the bat when the block cracked and I saw the classic Italian hand gestures from the dude up top I pissed myself laughing. Amazing stuff.

@raxtoma5309 Жыл бұрын

This stone is true beauty 💓

@Puppythuppa Жыл бұрын

I mistook the word for Indian City Calcutta.!!🤣😁🙄🙋🏻‍♂️🕎♎

@indianguy5866 Жыл бұрын

Me too

@dmcgee3 Жыл бұрын

Couple years back my jobs owners had large portions of their mansions replaced with marble. Not sure if it was this type but I know what they spent so probably. I’d be happy just to own a small house and garden

@ehtashamhakeem4057 Жыл бұрын

Excellent short documentary.

@truthhunter7807 Жыл бұрын

Finished product is gorgeous

@cinemastudios9836 Жыл бұрын

Insane, there won't be any mountains left in this place

@markjhunbautista4274 Жыл бұрын

my favorite series :D

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@FlyingSeaMan256 Жыл бұрын

My quartz lookalike seems to be doing just fine tyvm

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@coconut6839 Жыл бұрын

Was looking for an alternative to all the plastic that's used and so disheartened to know that polyester, a known carcinogen, is also used on this beautiful marble!

@allysonand Жыл бұрын

Don’t eat the polyester and you’ll be fine

@rewardilicious Жыл бұрын

Make me a list of 10 things that are known to NOT be carcinogens. Go.

@eternalbeing3339 Жыл бұрын

That marble mountain is pretty cool.

@jkingmarblepolishingandtre8912 Жыл бұрын

Nice information👌

@Half_Finis Жыл бұрын

Thank you for using metric tones :) Always confusing when American productions say just "ton" never know what that means

@jackjohnson6884 Жыл бұрын

That's good I agree, you noticed the tendency of Americans to weight things in lbs too, things like aircraft carriers, once it gets a certain weight stop using such a small measurement. Saying it weights 500000000 lbs doesn't mean anything to me

@Half_Finis Жыл бұрын

@@jackjohnson6884 absolutely, my native language isn't English either so if they just say something like 3 quarters of an inch or 250 foot pounds of torque my eyes just glaze over cause it means nothing to me and I can't visualize it

@winstonsgmx Жыл бұрын

It’s incredible how we split mountain into small block. And it’s weird knowing one day it will forever disappear

@sme7725a 9 ай бұрын

Sadly the landscape pays the price for being excavated. All that'll be left is a weirdly shaped shell.

@apricotcomputers3943 Жыл бұрын

I can't wait to see videos like this for valuable lunar blocks

@theodor12 Жыл бұрын

5:18 Yoo, Toyota GR Yaris in the background!

@jerryqiu7444 Жыл бұрын

Imagine this quarry is in China or India. Imagine how much of this video would be about environmental damage and protest from locals.

@reetu730 Жыл бұрын

🧟‍♀️

@hydrosphagus9672 Жыл бұрын

"You think nothing is going to happen, but then the block cracked." Is that really so weird? I mean, come on, it's not a slab of solid iron... and you just dropped it like that with no cushion..

@chedderburg Жыл бұрын

Yeah it doesn’t seem they are being very careful at the extraction faze

@conradgardner3757 Жыл бұрын

that part is weird to me too, if it's so expensive, why not have a crane to slowly drop it down? or any other heavy machinery to slowly bring it down rather than just drop and break it

@justagirl6761 Жыл бұрын

Plus they dropped it on sharp rocks. And marble is porous... the cracking was expected.

@nunyabiznes33 Жыл бұрын

@@conradgardner3757 I think he's referring to the process of extracting it from the mountain rather than it breaking in transport.

@samsonsoturian6013 Жыл бұрын

These miners. They will rock you.

@ZXTXM 9 ай бұрын

Is shipping cost included in that $10k slab?

@allisonle8596 Жыл бұрын

Mother Nature is just so unbelievable. I kind of think it’s so shallow to cut through the mountain of marble for vanity purposes.

@TheBanjoShowOfficial Жыл бұрын

...We cut through these stones and turn them into home furnishings to appreciate mother nature, or the vanity of which you speak of. If not this way, you wouldn't even know that this rock existed.

@allisonle8596 Жыл бұрын

@@TheBanjoShowOfficial The amount of stone taken is quite alarming.

@kenfern2259 9 ай бұрын

@@allisonle8596 there are locals that are upset bc eventually the future generation wont see the mountains anymore. it used to be round and curve now its geometric and square

@jolly02 Жыл бұрын

That marble looking nice but the price holy

@JohnHausser Жыл бұрын

What an original comment !

@Account-kv3jc Жыл бұрын

1: It's marble 2: it's from Italy 3: tons of labour and machinery 4: processing said marble and importing it to markets overseas

@Tantemify 9 ай бұрын

the mining place looks unreal

@HobbyOrganist Жыл бұрын

I like how they slather some cheap resin over the surface to fill in cracks and defects, like this resin is going to LAST, all resins and glues turn color, get brittle and fail, especially with exposure to sun, UV light. Mable stains easily, I would not use it for a kitchen counter- fired porcelan tile is much better

@fourdoorsmorehoes Жыл бұрын

Using Polyester resin to polish marble has been an accepted method for 50 years now..

@moneyobsessed Жыл бұрын

those are not the top of the line slabs for sure

@stcemel Жыл бұрын

to each his own

@veo16 Жыл бұрын

didn’t they do a segment on this same mine a year ago? i remember watching this on yt already.

@ImranBuksh Жыл бұрын

I have Cararra Calcatta in my kitchen and it looks so wonderful. Yes, it costs alot more than the normal marble or stone but after its finish, its totally worth it

@tanha8178 Жыл бұрын

That block of marble stone itselft is beautiful enough to put anywhere, infront of a big bank's bulding or in a living room

@hansandresen4392 Жыл бұрын

What is her accent? She says "mau-en" instead of mountain

@AbbyStrongNPC Жыл бұрын

Was wondering if I was the only one

@Scottagram Жыл бұрын

I haven't watched the video yet but judging by the other So Expensive videos, I'm going to guess: The marble is extracted by tribal artisans from the endangered marble tree, who struggle every day because of government regulations and climate change threatening the natural habitat of marble.

@silo3com Жыл бұрын

Saw the thumbnail Had to say that's a beautiful specimen

@alparslankorkmaz2964 Жыл бұрын

Nice video.

@danielsegreti4475 Жыл бұрын

The Calcatta gold, looks like a rust stain. People are dumb.

@frankargenti Жыл бұрын

keep living in poverty, stay strong !

@freakiebriqie3067 Жыл бұрын

It’s saddening to think that the mountain is awfully exploited and the natural resources cannot be replaced at all

@marcocelotto3058 Жыл бұрын

Not really, there is plenty of mountains out there and the ones that are worth exploiting in such a way are very few

@uskok4636 Жыл бұрын

@@marcocelotto3058 really. This cannot be replaced ever and you say thete is plenty out there. You are part of the problem

@marcocelotto3058 Жыл бұрын

@@uskok4636 i understand where you are coming from but before they found marble in it that was just another mountain. I don't want to sound to cynical but mountains aren't an endangered specie and i don't see much harm in exploiting those that us human have a particular interest in.

@christianyanes1820 Жыл бұрын

Amazing

@abdulriyaz1030 Жыл бұрын

You should make a video on Makrana marbel (it's a haritage marbel) and it shine like a white gold

@RonSmith472 Жыл бұрын

Mount-ins? Or mountains 🤷🏾‍♂️

@davidcovington901 Жыл бұрын

Not even uh T.

@Ashallmusica Жыл бұрын

I wonder : How far human can go to justify his behaviour towards things ( mostly believing that such things SHOULD be tagged expensive ) and i realised nature never really acknowledged much to anything, neither humans or its biased beliefs. And maybe, somewhere, Nature blames itself for creating such highly intelligent organisms, aka - Human Being, that, is destroying itself and the others around them.

@spartanalphamode2987 Жыл бұрын

First of all nature didn’t create any human beings. We actually came from apes and evolved thereafter. But all living things eventually came from the Big Bang which was ultimately 1000 times stronger than any supernova. Oh and for reference a supernova has the power of 10 suns combined.

@abid3623 Жыл бұрын

Very interesting

@bobbydelamar606 Жыл бұрын

Nice interesting video. And yes this Calacatta is expensive. We own a countertop business, Set In Stone Creations LLC.

@ESSBrew Жыл бұрын

So how much is a cube so I can start practice on my statue carving?

@eltonlouiewolf-wilson8345 Жыл бұрын

Mountains not Mounains! I had to stop 40 seconds into this video because it was almost the same to me as the word Moist is to others!! 😆

@twin2482 Жыл бұрын

A lot of people in the industry do not punctuate "t"

@giantalaskanworm719 Жыл бұрын

That's the proper pronunciation, the t is silent

@benjaminjohnson2510 Жыл бұрын

@@giantalaskanworm719 you must be joking

@manojpandey7895 Жыл бұрын

@@benjaminjohnson2510 in america it is

@srinaths9014 Жыл бұрын

Wonderful

@lovemussb1940 Жыл бұрын

Calacatta fontinelli is my favourite one.

@MnSakib007 Жыл бұрын

I wish to make my whole house out of it.

@k-studio8112 Жыл бұрын

Goodluck with the earthquake.

@thefoundingtitanerenyeager2345 Жыл бұрын

How much do you make yearly cause that would cost millions of dollars

@MnSakib007 Жыл бұрын

@@thefoundingtitanerenyeager2345 I can't. I'm a poor student. It's that kind of wishes that may never come true. But feels good to think about.