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Marble quarries are places where, from ages, mining and manufacturing are of two types: indoor and outdoor. These quarries look like amphitheaters with huge white walls, the amazing perspectives and the symmetrical rigor of terraces. The most advanced excavating method and the most used in all of the quarries is the one with diamond wire, introduced at the end of the seventies in the Carrara quarries. It’s still about the helicoidal wire, but this time on the steel wire you can find tiny steel cylinders called “small pearls”, covered with several layers of diamonds for industrial use: the hardest material that can deliver the best results. Yet there are other cut methods, though less used: the chain cut, for example, and the perforation cut. Also, there are cutters that use disks and cutters that use water sprays.