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[@Mc_muffintop]

Had never heard of grand antique marble before this video

[@bakerkawesa]

Artificially limiting how much they extract won't spare the quarry. It's not like the marble regenerates. It's all about selling less for more.

[@MaxG-jk8ty]

Scarcity driving price is basic economics. It's not "artificially" scarce like De Beers used to do with diamonds. It's a valuable limited resource just like many rare gem mines. I'd rather see it slowly and carefully harvested and sold to the highest bidder than speedrunning the extraction. They did that with crazy lace agate. Middleman stockpiled it and can get 1000X what the miners were selling it for, now that the source is exhausted. It's the unfortunate reality of limited resources.

[@robertsonmcnaughton4850]

Please explain the process behind losing a quarry for 70 years

[@sacmaps]

Fell behind the sofa.

[@robertsonmcnaughton4850]

@sacmaps ahhh IcIc

[@trezenx]

everyone who knew of its existence were killed by the Lagarda crime group, and it was kept in secret in the first place because it was so valuable they would come and take it away. which basically what happened.

[@pushs_cool_stuff]

If it's that precious, why cant they find a way to extract it that doesnt involve dropping it off a cliff and smashing it?

[@GameFuMaster]

You'd think they'd know what a jack hammer is and try to extract bit by bit, rather than dropping a huge block and losing AT LEAST 50% of the materials.

[@morteroa]

Jean Jaques has to be the frenchest name ever

[@mountainvalleymedia5836]

That big fall looked unnecessarily wasteful, the whole block tumbled in what looked the worst way possible If there is 60k on the line I would try some Egyptian pyramid voodoo to salvage more of it, especially since it's apparently so rare it only exists in that quarry

[@imakedookie]

Why would they care about that, theyre getting rich now so nothing else matters

[@RandyMarsh-o2n]

It probably got abandoned because it was right after ww2 ended. Europe was in shambles and people were more worried about putting food on the table and rebuilding. So demand for certain luxury goods would not have been as high. That along with bad weather, workers being sent to focus more on projects that rebuild the nation, and etc was probably the reason why it got abandoned.

[@GodzHarleyGirlStudio]

In a comment above to Robertson someone explained how it got lost. The lagarda crime group killed everyone who knew of its existence.

[@W4LTERED-cw8su]

Me watching this video about expensive stuff while having $5.36 in my bank acc

[@daviecrocket9160]

I know right

[@Lakemichigangirl]

But still a very interesting video.

[@Adam-ys4dn]

True true😂

[@Adam-ys4dn]

True true😂

[@MAGA-TapWater]

If you look hard enough you can find very cheap granite pieces and build your own table

[@DwightStJohn-t7y]

Fun Fact: marble has a moisture content and certain quaurries are the source for just that ONE type: there are only two souces for GREEN marble that meet arch. specifications for outdoor slabbing, for instance or in Calgary where you can get wind chill of minus 60. There an island in Hudsons Bay where gold ribboned marble is cut into van sized blocks for cutting in Italy. I'ts the only source for that marble as well.

[@trezenx]

applying artificial scarcity to marble is just comical when you see how much they waste. Yeah so I'm gonna extract less and break half of this precious one of a kind LIMITED(!) resource just so I could profit more. What a joke. Comparing it to nike is another level of cynicism. Not only they are wasteful, but also greedy.

[@judahfriedman8516]

I say they should have left the ancient Roman quarry alone and made it into a museum or something.

[@MANIC3420]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="79">1:19</a> so he just decided it was his?

[@ABlueDahlia]

Beautiful.

[@ВиталийДмитриевичБутерин]

They would be $60K richer if they had just rented an inflatable bouncy castle to cushion the fall

[@UberFoX]

I dont think you understand how heavy it is.

[@GarethWhittington]

Even just piling dirt next to it with the machines should help. Even if they spent $10k on the machine, fuel, operator and time, they would likely get more yield, right? Maybe they don’t need pieces that big, they showed the old bridge where the blocks used to travel out from, perhaps the new route isn’t much bigger.

[@TheRealMehrain]

Nice

[@doodskie999]

wow

[@willcookmakeup]

20x Carrera marble bahahaha goddamn

[@maje9448]

Treasuer

[@stoundingresults]

Can't they fake marble with polymers?

[@farticlesofconflatulation]

There is no greater artist than nature.

[@auro1986]

why? your science can't equal nature

[@sahibabhutto1117]

First

[@jackspades231]

Second

[@PablitoCristo]

they need to figure out a better way to move big blocks around then just yeeting em off the side of the quarry