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

Quarring activities and mineral processing for glass production, in the Pri verno-Fossanova area (southern Latium), imply the stocking of great amounts of waste muds with an heavy environmental impact on the territory. A research was carried out to analize different forms of recovery and re-us e of these red muds leading to the production of new industrial materials a nd the reduction of the environmental impact. In particular in this paper t he results of some experiments for the production bf water paints are prese nted. Several formulations were created and tested by the application on di fferent surfaces. The encouraging results obtained support the feasibility of the hypothesis of re-use of the red muds.