Turkey's most rich stone resources - marble

Turkey Marble production had more than 4,000 years of production history; Currently, Turkey of nearly 700 marble quarries, 1600 a inspectors and 120 factory. Marble has become an increasingly important export products in Turkey, at present the product exports have accounted for more than half of soil minerals exports.
Turkey is the world's oldest marble producer, has one of more than 4,000 years of production history. The earliest origin is located in marmara sea, where the marmaray island teems with white marble. Turkey has rich marble mineral resources, according to data records, national Marble Tile proved reserves of 50 billion cubic meters, 40% of the world's reserves. Turkey 90% of the marble mine is located in Turkey's western, among them with the marmaray island, Aegean regions and figaro everlasting provinces are particularly important. Currently, Turkey of nearly 700 marble quarries, 1600 a inspectors and 120 factory.
Turkey marble has character good variety, bright colors and patterns beauty etc various advantages, by introducing modern processing machinery (mainly imported from Italy, and adopting advanced) processing technology, in recent years the marble production quality enhances unceasingly, not only in the domestic architecture, and widely used in large export to other countries. Processing technical improvement of the quality of the stone products not only improved and shorten the processing time, also maximize the save the raw materials. Turkey mining marble were more than 250 varieties, including more than 100 exported to abroad. One popular breed is very much, if ShaNa cream-colored, rice HuangDong stone, purple LuoGong, cobweb, tsing lung cream-colored, Swiss white, JinShiJi cream-colored, etc. The United States the Venetian hotel is in Las Vegas and the world's third-largest hotel, it used archaize Mosaic entirely by Turkish YAPI - MER building materials construction company production provides.
As the most important kinds of minerals for nearly ten years, in Turkey's economic and marble has played an important role in exports. Every spring the "international marble fair held in Turkey's third largest city after Iraq this mill, countries held the order, drive-travelers importers around marble factory soil full production, demand exceeds supply. Istanbul Anatolia marble association President mustafa that, along with the increase of investment and the production expanding, after several years in exports of soil marble can reach more than $10 billion.
Nonetheless, Turkey marble production and export is far from play out potential. Producers generally reflected, Turkey exists serious bureaucracy, relevant laws and regulations is not perfect, many departments, highway and railway transportation repeat management problems, port customs problem, energy prices too high, financing difficulties, high, encourage policy surtax insufficient and so on many kinds of negative factors of marble industry development, formed serious constraints. It is reported, current apply for mining marble need to get government 14 ministries and commissions, more than 150 of the approval of the competent department sign, can finish do a procedure. Any ministries are not willing to decentralization. People look forward to the new "mineral law can will this kind of bureaucratism minimize 13 years ago, but the brewing of mineral law submitted to parliament, two years ago, has not been approved. Entrepreneurs are not very dissatisfied. Big corporations reluctant to enter this industry. Foreign unwilling to Turkey investment mining, nor flourishing, domestic investment laws and regulations perfect and serious bureaucracy, affected investors' enthusiasm. Visible, Turkey marble business operators difficult, to explore the international market, inherit a various difficulties. So, the mineral law of the issued and the above problems, is an early settlement of the further development of soil marble industry premise.