The (sometimes) rushing Crystal River, one of Colorado's noted trout streams, in Gunnison County, high in the Rocky Mountains above the town of Marble. The white stones on the riverbank are, in fact, scraps of marble from the Colorado Marble Quarry, where high-quality white marble, once a staple of the economy before it was thought that the vein had played out, is again extracted following the discovery of a large, new vein

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