Portugal: A landslide causes at least 5 deaths near a marble quarry
A landslide in Portugal destroyed part of the road that ran along marble quarries and caused the death of d
WEAKNESSES A landslide resulted in the death of 5 people in southeastern Portugal, four more are missing. The damage is impressive: a road was partially destroyed.
At least five people were killed on Monday following a landslide that partially destroyed a road running through a marble quarry in southeastern Portugal, emergency services said. Four others were missing.
"The 5 casualties are quarry workers who were in this area during the landslide," José Ribeiro, commander of the Evora District Civil Protection, told the media.
According to the medical emergency service (Inem), the four missing persons were on board "two civilian vehicles" traveling on the road that collapsed into a "50-meter deep" crevasse.
The vehicles would have fallen into a basin formed at the end of the quarry, making it difficult to search for missing persons.
The region of Borba, located some 200 kilometers east of the capital Lisbon, is renowned for its many marble quarries since ancient times.
CTMNC Technical Day Wednesday 03 April 2019
We are pleased to inform you that the CTMNC is organizing its 12th Technical Day on Wednesday 03 April 2019 at SNROC (3, rue Alfred Roll - 75017 Paris) on the theme:
"Prescribe well in natural stone"
The program and a registration form will be available soon.
Please note in your diaries this date of Wednesday 03 April 2019, come and let us know!
Rocalia 2019: The halls fill up in Lyon.
We are now at one year from the opening of the second edition of the Salon Rocalia, natural stone show to be held in Lyon (3-5 December 2019) and the exhibition space has been filled in recent weeks . The success of the first edition led many exhibitors of 2017 to renew their participation, very often by increasing their booth space. Many others who were there in 2017 are also being renewed and new ones have slipped into the collective.
Grand Marbrerie ceases activity in Bulle, Switzerland 20 jobs deleted
After 70 years in the field of marble, the bull company R. Grand & Fils SA, one of the important Swiss mills will cease its activity next spring. The twenty people concerned will receive their salaries until the end of the contractual deadlines.
It is a historical company of the Bulloise place which ceases its activity. Active for 70 years in the marble, R. Grand & Fils SA will indeed close its doors in the spring of next year.
According to the owners, Grand brothers the two sectors in which the company operates are in a negative trend. "There is the funeral art that sees more and more people choosing cremation rather than burial, and the building whose foreign competition has become extremely strong," the company writes in a statement.
But according to some sources of the granite market in Switzerland the marble company also pays its difficulties to evolve.
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