Underground quarrying of dimension stone is not uncommon nor is the use of tunnelling muck to produce aggregate in the first case combined methods implying mechanical cutting and cautious blasting and a slow progression according to tunnelling standards are used; in the second case the main problems pertain to the plant design and operation
·quarry place where dimension stone or aggregate sand gravel crushed rock is products of dimension stone quarries are prismatic blocks of rock such as marble granite limestone sandstone and cutting and polishing these materials are used in the primary construction of buildings and monuments and also for decorative
·threatening risks of dimensional stone quarrying Keywords Dimensional stone RBS Risk assessment Fuzzy AHP Fuzzy VIKOR Investment decisions in dimension stone projects are highly susceptible
·Dimension stones industry is an industry with significant economic potential that has been overgrowing in recent years Despite this growth this industry faces several significant challenges including very low efficiency high production costs and many wastes generation and resource loss during extraction and processing phases To overcome
·Face height quarrying direction and cutting patterns are the most important operational parameters in dimension stone quarrying As shown in Fig 1 a big block is first extracted from a quarry face and is then sliced to the final blocks/products Generally the cutting pattern consists of side floor and back cuts created by a diamond wire
·The successful exploration of dimension stone mainly depends on the quality size and shape of extractable blocks of dimension stone The investigated area is in the Pelješac Peninsula Croatia in the External Dinarides orogeny built from thick carbonate succession characterized by relatively small deposits of high quality
·: Predicting the sawability of dimension stone is one of the most important factors in the optimized design and cost estimation of quarrying This paper aims to predict the cutting rate of diamond wire saw DWS as main performance criteria
·current industry operations relating to dimensional stone production Prior to this evaluation the environmental implications of stone extraction and fabrication processes had received little attention compared to other industries In particular life cycle inventory LCI data on natural