The town population was 131 at the 2010 united states census.
Colorado lincoln marble.
The town of marble is a statutory town in gunnison county colorado united states.
A new vein of lincoln marble has been discovered and is being quarried at the colorado yule marble quarry uncovering one of the finest white marbles found in the world.
The east side quarry started in 1904 by the strauss brothers was quarried inside whitehouse mountain.
The qualities of marble extracted and made available to the market are.
Those on the west being the john osgood quarry pit type started in the early 1890s and the present day quarry started in 1905 by the colorado yule marble company inside the mountain.
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While lincoln himself was carved from georgia marble the gleaming building that surrounds him is all marble marble quarried shaped and polished in rural colorado more than a century ago.
The first three are highlighted by a bright white background with veins ranging from gold to gray of varying intensity and thickness.
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These qualities are why it has been chosen for a number of major national and state landmarks most notably the lincoln memorial.
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This one is a marble of metamorphosed limestone found only in the yule creek valley in the west elk mountains of colorado 2 8 miles 4 5 km southeast of the town of marble colorado.