Working in the quarry

Comparing different quarrying realities on the topic of security

by Consorzio Produttori Marmo Botticino Classico
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On Tuesday, March 21st, 2017 a delegation composed of the UPG of the Province of Brescia, Geom. Giovanni Battista Patarini, of the President of National Mining Engineers Association (ANIM), Eng. Domenico Savoca, and Representatives of Piemonte and Tuscany Regions, were in Botticino to meet our President Eng. Giovanni Merendino, together with President of the Consortium Valley of Nuvolera, Geol. Giuliano Ghirardi and local quarrying operators and technicians.

 

The visit to the Basin of Botticino Classico marble in Botticino and to the Basin of Semi-Classico and Fiorito marbles, in Nuvolera, was organized by ANIM, on solicitation of territorial mining authorities of different Provinces, with the aim of comparing different quarrying realities on the topic of security, regarding the use of diamond wire cutting machines, in the marble quarries.

 

The meeting was aimed at the revision of the rules on the use of diamond wire cutting machines and at the drafting of a national guidelines, for the improvement of safety conditions.

 

On this occasion, we presented the Vademecum “Working in the quarry” drawn up in 2014 and promoted by the Province of Brescia and the Consortiums of the stone industry, consisting of technical data sheets, relating to the various quarry operations and related risks.

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      Consorzio Produttori Marmo Botticino Classico

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      Founded in 1987, the Consortium of Botticino Classico Marble Producers associates the leading local Producers, qualifying itself as the main promoter of the culture and quality of Botticino Classico Marble in the world. Due to new challenges from competitors marbles, exported by developing Countries, in 2005 the Consortium has registered a Collective Mark of Origin, the first one applied to the stone market, in Italy, in the European Union and in 22 non-EU countries. With the registration of the Mark of origin, the Consortium provides a formal and substantial guarantee that products, from the area covered by the denomination, are produced according to the most stringent quality controls and pursuant to European regulations. The Consortium is now in the global market, a reality that has the ambition and hope to revive the "Made in Italy" in a field of thousands of years of tradition and cultural values​​.)

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