Covelano White Marble

The up to date, efficient and environmentally sound digging are emphasis of the Covelano Marmo enterprise based in Silandro (South-Tyrol, Italy).The quarry produces about 2,000 cubic metres per year in different categories, the White Covelano, the White Covelano Gold Vein,the White Covelano Emerald Vein, the White Covelano Gold and Silver Vein, the White Covelano Silver Vein and the White Venosta.

The different qualities

Covelano marble is a chemically almost pure, highly crystalline limestone (99 % calcite). Its single small crystals are optimally interleaved, show consistent grain, have only few cracks, are hard and pressure resistant but translucent and perfectly polish-able. The specific weight amounts to an average of 2,750 kg per cubic metre with insignificant fluctuations of never exceeded 0.1 %. Due to its chemical advantages favouring high weather resistance, Covelano marble is one ofthe rare types of white marble worldwide, which can also be used for external purposes.

Translucent - weather resistant

The Covelano Marble can look back on a long success story. In 1856 for the first time the systematic quarrying of the white natural stone took place. The clients at that time were the monarchs of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire. They used this material to create works of art that are still admired objects. After 1959/60 the company "Lasa Marmo" started working in the Covelano quarry. The quarrying works of "Lasa Marmo" continued until the expiration of the concession rights in 1999. In August 2007 the quarrying rights were handed over to the company "Covelano Marmi Srl", which is exclusively owned by the Pohl family from Castelbello.

The Covelano quarry is the highest marble quarry in Europe, located at 2,200 m above sea level, embedded in the breathtaking mountain sceneryof the Central Italian Alps. Due to the exposed alpine position, marble can only be quarried during the summer.

Covelano Marble - White gold from the heart of the Alps

1st quality marble: White color with different veins! Covelano marble can also be used for external purposes!