Recovering and recycling aspects of red waste muds from siliceous sands mining activity

Quarring activities and mineral processing for glass production. u: the Priverno-Fossanova area (southern Larium), imply the stocking of great arnounrs of waste muds with an heavy environnrntal impact on the territory. A research was carried out to analize different forms of recovery and re-usc of rhese red muds leading to the production of new industrial materials and thc reduction of the envirennpntal impact. In particular in this paper the results of sonrc' experirrents for the production of water paints iue presented. Several formulations were crearcd and tested by the application on different surfaces. The encouraging results obtained support the feasibility of the hypothesis of re-use of the red muds.