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Marble
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One of Taiwan's few natural resources, and the only one with an almost
inexhaustible supply, is marble. Manufacturing plants are located in Hualien, near the
famed Taroko Gorge, and shops in that city offer an astonishing range of products.:
lamps and lamp stands, checkerboard table tops, book ends, ash trays and cigarette
boxes, pencil holders, paper weights, and kitchen items. The prices start at just over
US$5 for an ashtray to a few hundred dollars for statues and sculptures. The Retired
Servicemen's Engineering Agency (RSEA), which operates Hualien's biggest marble
processing plant, also has a Taipei display center at 32 Chungshan N. Rd., Sec. 2.
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