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1. Dimension Stone Quarries Risk Assessment Estremoz Marbles

   For centuries, dimension stone marble exploitation from the Estremoz Anticline, south Portugal, leads to a peculiar landscape consisting of hundreds...

   Luís Lopes, Ruben Martins, ... Paula Faria in Advances in Natural Hazards and Volcanic Risks: Sha** a Sustainable Future

   Conference paper 2023
   

2. Pliocene Geotourism: Innovative Projects for Valorizing the Paleontological Heritage of Three Different-Staged Quarries of Tuscany (Central Italy)

   Quarries are areas of pivotal importance for investigation, popularization, and educational purposes in the field of geosciences. Here, we focus on...

   Marco Merella, Alberto Collareta, ... Giovanni Bianucci in Geoheritage

   Article Open access 07 June 2023
   

3. Rock Quarries in Critical Situation in Portugal: An Overview

   Following a serious accident killing five people, resulting from a steep quarry slope failure in November 2018, the Portuguese authorities required...

   Mário Quinta-Ferreira, Isabel Fernandes, Helder I. Chaminé in Advances in Geoengineering, Geotechnologies, and Geoenvironment for Earth Systems and Sustainable Georesources Management

   Conference paper 2023
   

4. Seismotectonic and anthropogenic factors controlling landslide hazard in Gafsa phosphates quarries

   Ground and slope instability problems resulting from open pit extractions occur in the quarrying areas as well as within the tailing or heaps of...

   Ines Mahmoudi, Ferid Dhahri, ... Mouez Gouasmia in Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment

   Article 23 May 2024
   

5. Assessment of Rock Slope Stability in Limestone Quarries in the Tournai’s Region (Belgium) Using Structural Data

   The Tournai’s region is characterised by famous outcrops of carboniferous limestone which is mined out for cement and raw material production. The...

   Jean-Pierre Tshibangu, K. Pierre-Alexandre Deloge, ... Christophe Coudyzer in Engineering Geology for Infrastructure Planning in Europe

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6. Rock Slope Instability Risk Assessment in Open-Pit Quarries: A Comprehensive Approach

   This work aims to develop a simplified approach to assess slope stability in open-pit marble quarries. Each site is subject to field investigation to...

   João Brissos, Leonor Mata, ... Daniel Vendas in Advances in Geoengineering, Geotechnologies, and Geoenvironment for Earth Systems and Sustainable Georesources Management

   Conference paper 2023
   

7. Building stone quarries: resource evaluation by block modelling and unmanned aerial photogrammetric surveys

   The production of building stones shown an exponential growth in last decades as consequences of the demand and developments in the extraction and...

   Maxim Bogdanowitsch, Luís Sousa, Siegfried Siegesmund in Environmental Earth Sciences

   Article Open access 18 December 2021
   

8. Comparison of the Environmental Impact and Production Cost Rates of Aggregates Produced from Stream Deposits and Crushed Rock Quarries (Boğaçay Basin/Antalya/Turkey)

   Geoheritage and geoconservation are concerned with the preservation of geological features and are significant global endeavors, as evidenced by...

   Mehmet Ozcelik in Geoheritage

   Article 29 January 2022
   

9. Examples of Good Practices in the Reclamation and Use of Abandoned Quarries

   Areas after the completion of the opencast exploitation of rock resources, require an appropriate approach in terms of choosing the direction of...

   Urszula Kaźmierczak, Marek W. Lorenc, ... Danuta Rajczakowska in Geoheritage

   Article 02 March 2024
   

10. Rehabilitation scenarios for limestone quarries with 3D modeling and 3D print: a case study of Jebel El Oust (Tunisian Atlas)

    The extractive industry is important for the development and sustainability of the construction, mining, manufacturing industries, and metropolitan...

    Soumaya Ben Fredj, Fetheddine Melki, Kamel Jeridi in Arabian Journal of Geosciences

    Article 24 January 2022
    

11. Gamma spectrometry measurements of natural and artificial radioactivity of Saklıkent-Antalya and its correlation to quarries

    We investigated the natural and artificial radioactivity levels of soil samples from Saklıkent, Antalya due to the radioactive isotopes of ²³⁸ U , ²³² T h ...

    Aydin Yildirim, Selcuk Oktay Solakci, ... Ismail Boztosun in Arabian Journal of Geosciences

    Article 31 July 2021
    

12. Soil Formation in the Quarries after Forest Reclamation in the Middle Taiga Subzone of the Northeast of European Russia

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    The research was conducted in the European northeast of Russia (Komi Republic), in the reclaimed quarries for mining construction sand in the...

    I. A. Likhanova, E. G. Kuznetsova, ... B. A. Makeev in Eurasian Soil Science

    Article 29 April 2021
    

13. Prediction of flyrock throw distance in quarries by variable selection procedures and ANFIS modelling technique

    This study suggests application of variable reduction procedures for flyrock prediction. It was aimed to create robust and non-complex predictive...

    Turker Hudaverdi in Environmental Earth Sciences

    Article 07 May 2022
    

14. Radiological Implication of ²²²Rn Concentrations in Waters from Quarries Environs, Correlation with ²²⁶Ra Concentrations and Rocks Geochemistry

    Radon concentration in ground and surface waters collected from the environs of quarries was assessed using advanced Durridge RAD-7 analyser with RAD...

    Ebenezer Babatope Faweya, Oluranti Adegoke Agbetuyi, ... Olanrewaju Faweya in Arabian Journal of Geosciences

    Article 31 May 2021
    

15. Ancient Isaura Quarries in and Around Zengibar Castle (Bozkır, Konya), Central Anatolia, Turkey

    Zengibar Castle was built by the Isaurian during antique ages on the summit of Mount Asar, approximately 20 km west of the town of Bozkır, Konya,...

    Mehmedi Vehbi Gökçe, İsmail İnce, ... Mustafa Fener in Geoheritage

    Article 27 July 2020
    

16. Caverns Found and Explored During the Construction of Airports and in Quarries

    During the construction of airports, quarries and their facilities in the Dinaric Karst, hundreds of caverns were found, explored and documented....

    Mladen Garasic in The Dinaric Karst System of Croatia

    Chapter 2021
    

17. Effect of the rock properties on sawability of granite using diamond wire saw in natural stone quarries

    Sawability of diamond wire saw is a cost-sensitive parameter in natural stone quarries that affects directly the production planning and equipment...

    Sohan Singh Rajpurohit, Rabindra Kumar Sinha, ... Vedanta Adak in Arabian Journal of Geosciences

    Article 20 October 2020
    

18. Spatial distribution and landscape impact analysis of quarrying in the highly fragmented ecosystem of Tandilia system (Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina)

    Quarrying generates significant changes in the grasslands, by reducing ecological functions, reducing connectivity, impairing biodiversity, and...

    Irati Carabia-Sanz, María Verónica Simoy, ... Igor Berkunsky in Environmental Earth Sciences

    Article 10 May 2024
    

19. Evaluation of blast efficiency in aggregate quarries: facts and fictions

    Evaluation of blast efficiency in quarrying of aggregate stones is one of the most important decisions that should be made by quarry operators for...

    Shaib Abdulazeez Shehu, Mohd Hazizan Mohd Hashim in Arabian Journal of Geosciences

    Article 13 March 2021
    

20. Predicting Blast-induced Ground Vibration in Quarries Using Adaptive Fuzzy Inference Neural Network and Moth–Flame Optimization

    Blasting is a first preparatory stage that plays a fundamental role in the subsequent operations of an open pit mine. However, its adverse effects...

    Xuan-Nam Bui, Hoang Nguyen, ... Hoang-Bac Bui in Natural Resources Research

    Article 19 October 2021