Carrara marble and Statuario marble, both extracted in the Carrara area quarries of Italy. They share the same origin but they are very different unders multiple aspects:

1 Availability

Carrara marble is highly available and represent the 80% of the quarries production. Statuario marble is rarer and less available.

2 Color and veins

Statuario marble shows a very white background color and a few thick veins across the slabs, instead Carrara Marble color is greyish and has intense dots/veins across the slabs surface;

3.Price 

Statuario Marble is at least 12 times more expensive than Carrara marble due to its unique characteristics and limited availability