At some point, everyone in the stone business has found themselves looking at a beautiful slab in their shop and wondering where it could have come from and how it ended up there. The general areas of the world are easy: Brazil, Italy, China or India supply most of the stone that we work with. The real fun starts when you dig a bit deeper. In this article, we’ll follow how Brothers in Granite, a producer and exporter of natural stone from Brazil, discovers quarries and stone from across their country.
Brazil has the greatest diversity of natural stone types and colors in the world and is home to over 1,500 active quarries. The state of Espirito Santo itself, where Brothers is headquartered, is the epicenter of the stone trade and has some of the largest reserves of granite and marble in the country.