Tennessee Pink Marble Quarry

We are also a supplier of many other marble and limestone varieties and have a full processing operation to fabricate virtually any architectural stone product you can imagine.

Tennessee pink marble quarry. The new 35 mile tennessee pink marble trail encircles a 5 mile radius connecting downtown to primarily south knoxville attractions highlighting the stone architecture of the chapman highway dogwood trail and the reclaimed mead s quarry at ijams nature center along with various stops along the urban wilderness loop and nearby historic homes. We also quarry many other varieties of marble including verde antique quaker gray and more. We process marble and limestone into tile block slabs pavers and any other architectural product you can imagine with access to quarries all over the world. The stone occurs in belts of ordovician period rocks known as the holston formation and is quarried primarily in knox blount loudon union and hawkins counties.

While pink is the most well known tennessee marble color the stone also occurs in gray dark brown cedar and variegated shades. Off white pink and dark red limestone has been quarried from beds and lenses within the holston formation in the valley and ridge physiographic province of the appalacians of eastern tennessee since1838. Quarried block of pink tennessee marble tennessee marble is a type of crystalline limestone found only in east tennessee in the southeastern united states.