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Turkey, situated on the Alpine zone where the world’s richest natural stone
formations are, has very diverse and large amounts of marble reserves.
Turkey, with addition to these reserves, has become one of the world’s most
important natural stone producers with its developing industry and the
technology it uses in production. These important reserves have spread
to a large region between Anatolia and Thrace.
The cities where the reserves are more concentrated are Afyon, Bilecik,
Balikesir, Denizli, Mugla, Amasya, Tokat and Diyarbakir.
You can view the marble reserves among the cities here.
Turkey’s natural stone and marble production has grown tremendously
in the last few years. Especially in the last period with the participation
of the establishments doing integral production alongside the investments
of the big firms, a great increase has been recorded in processed marble production.
With the modern quarry production methods that are recently
being applied and with the latest techniques, Turkey has become one of
the seven big producer countries in the world natural stone production.
In marble mining, where almost all of the production is being done by
the private sector, the annual block production is approximately 3 million tons; and
the total tablet production capacity of the processing establishments is around 13 million sqm.
Turkey, with an important place in terms of the world’s marble reserves has a very high market opportunity with its variety of marble having about 400 different color and texture qualities.
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