What is Calcium Carbonate? Industrial Minerals
As marble, calcium carbonate is a coarsecrystalline, metamorphic rock, which is formed when chalk or limestone is recrystallised under conditions of high temperature and pressure. Large deposits of marble are found in North America and in Europe;, in Carrara, Italy, the home of the pure white quot;statuarioquot; from which Michelangelo created his sculptures.