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Where does the processing happen relative to the quarry?

About a thousand kilometres away, in a different province. The quarry is in Guizhou and the cutting and polishing happens in Shuitou or Yunfu in Guangdong, where the saws and the polishing lines are and where the container is loaded.
A row of roughly six squared stone blocks standing in the sand at the foot of a quarry, each one cut flat and marked with a red number on its face. Behind them the quarry is cut into benches up the hillside, and wind turbines stand on the ridge above under a blue sky.
The cutting floor at the quarry, with the sawn blocks standing in the sand.
A quarry face with the beds marked up by hand in coloured paint. Reading from the top the marks say: 1 white vein, 2 elegant black, 3 grey wood grain, 4 coffee, 5 elegant black, 6 elegant black, 7 black and white, with the red outline around the overburden at the top of the face. Coffee Wood Marble is the fourth bed down.
The face of the quarry with the beds marked in the field.
Marble slabs standing upright on wooden frames inside the open back of a shipping container, strapped and ready to load
Slabs loaded for shipment.

Reference photographs. They show the material and the finish; they are not photographs of goods we made, and the colour on screen is not a colour-match.

The figures, and where each one comes from

Place What it is
Guizhou The quarry. Blocks are taken out of the bed and moved out
Shuitou / Yunfu The workshops. Blocks are sawn into slabs, polished, cut and packed
The port The container is loaded

Why it behaves the way it does

It is normal in this trade and it is worth understanding, because it decides two things a buyer cares about: how long the material is in transit, and who is responsible for the cutting. The block travels; the cutting happens at the workshops.

What these figures are, and what they are not

We say where the cutting happens. We do not publish our workshop addresses or the names of the people who operate the polishing lines.

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About a thousand kilometres away, in a different province. The quarry is in Guizhou and the cutting and polishing happens in Shuitou or Yunfu in Guangdong, where the saws and the polishing lines are and where the container is loaded.

The figures

Place What it is
Guizhou The quarry. Blocks are taken out of the bed and moved out
Shuitou / Yunfu The workshops. Blocks are sawn into slabs, polished, cut and packed
The port The container is loaded

Why

It is normal in this trade and it is worth understanding, because it decides two things a buyer cares about: how long the material is in transit, and who is responsible for the cutting. The block travels; the cutting happens at the workshops.

What these figures are, and what they are not

We say where the cutting happens. We do not publish our workshop addresses or the names of the people who operate the polishing lines.

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