The quarry is located at an altitude of nearly 5,600 feet at the end of a winding road outside the village of Arni, about 90 minutes from Carrara. Stone is quarried at several levels within the site, and the various levels are connected by a series of ladders.
To extract the stone, the workers have a very specific cutting plan, where they work within different "rooms" or "galleries" within the quarry. Large chainsaws from Fantini, an Italian firm, are used to make vertical and horizontal cuts as needed, and they are in use throughout the quarry site.