Quarry Waste: Chances of a Possible Economic and Environmental Valorisation of the Montorfano and Baveno Granite Disposal Sites

Table 1

Petrographic analysis of the Montorfano white granite and the Baveno pink granite.

	Mineralogy	Chemical composition
		Al2O3	Fe2O3	TiO2	CaO	MgO	K2O	Na2O
Baveno pink granite	Quartz, K-feldspar, plagioclase, biotite, zircon, allanite and fluorite	13,98	2,301	0,26	1,19	0,29	4,97	3,18
Montorfano white granite	Plagioclase, quartz, K-feldspar, biotite, apatite, zircon, allanite	13,75	2,2895	0,25	1,25	0,265	4,875	3,225