Volume : 2, Issue : 2, February - 2013

A Technical Study on Quarrying and Processing of Marble and Its Waste Incorporating With Concrete

Nutan C. Patel, Jayeshkumar Pitroda

Abstract :

Marble waste is generally a high polluting waste due to both its high alkaline nature, and its manufacturing processing techniques, which impose a health threat to the surrounding. The quarries and processing plants are littered with large amounts of waste products deriving from extraction, sawing, polishing. At present, no significant activities are in place to recover and reuse the ultrafine CaCO3 dust combined in waste slurries of marble processing plants. It can be helpful to considering these calcareous particles as primary or secondary raw materials for use in other production. The main objective of this paper is to study the production process of the marble and during the production process how much waste is generated during the production process.