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WORLD AT WORK
Quarrying
World at work: Marble quarrying in Tuscany
1 Department of Occupational Medicine, Viareggio Local Health Authority, Italy
2 Department of Prevention, Siena Local Health Authority, Italy
3 Clinical Unit of Occupational Medicine, Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Trieste, Italy
Correspondence to:
Correspondence to:
Prof. G Angotzi
Servizio di Medicina del Lavoro, Azienda U.S.L.Viareggio, Via G. Garibaldi, 92, I-55045 Pietrasanta (Lucca), Italy; g.angotzi@usl12.toscana.it
Accepted 18 February 2005
Job hazards and preventive measures for workers
Keywords: marble quarrying
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Since the beginning of the Christian era, the Apuanian Alps between the provinces of Massa Carrara and Lucca in Tuscany, have been a centre for the excavation of white marble, venato and arabescato, and Cardoso stone. Marble is a metamorphic rock composed of calcium carbonate with a quartz content of less than 1%. Cardoso stone (from the name of the village of Cardoso) is a dark grey metamorphic sandstone made up of alternate thin layers of microgranular quartz and carbonate, as well as lamellas of disorientated mica, for example muscovite, with a quartz content of 60%. They are precious materials, used in Italy and worldwide to cover surfaces and flooring or as an architectural or structural element in building and for the realisation of sculptures. To prevent, as much as possible, the alteration or breakage of the material, the methods used for extracting this stone are different to those
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