RECOVERY AND REUSE OF MARBLE POWDER BYPRODUCT
semiliquid or slurry (Almeida et al., 2007). In fact during the marble cutting process by gang saws, water is used as a coolant and the powder flows along with it as waste marble slurry. Depending on the kind of process involved, the sludge generated is equal to between 2030% of the weight of the stone worked (Bertolini et al., 1990).