Natural Asbestos
Gi-RES is partner of a working group in studying and consulting on the occurrence of natural asbestos: the institutional leader of the group is the Interdepartmental Centre for Studies on Asbestos and Other Toxic Particulates “G. Scansetti”* of Turin University while other partners are the Earth Science Department of Turin and the CNR-IGG.
Main activities of the working group are:
- characterization of the petro-structural facies potentially bearing asbestos
- hazard and risk quantification of the natural occurring asbestos
- impact assessment of asbestos presence on the realization of infrastructural works
- safety procedures, monitoring plans, environmental protection
- mineralogical and petrographic analyses : optical microscopy, XRD
- quantitative analysis in laboratory: SEM-EDS*, MicroRaman*
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