Activities
The Sabucina stone presents excellent features and is therefore used in the building industry, particularly for internal and external coatings, and for artistic uses, including sculptures, capitals, lintels, façades and coatings, internal and external exposed decorations, floorings.
A stone of great value, it is offered in a series of versions and cuts ideal for the conservative renovation of historic buildings. In addition, it is also possible to produce non-standard sizes on customer request.
The company's technical office is at the customer's disposal for all kinds of information. You can also read and download two illustrative brochures here below.
the quarries of SABUCINA
The Caves of Sabucina are located on the homonymous mountain, about 10 km from the town of Caltanissetta.
The geological formation of Monte Sabucina is identified in the Geological Map of Italy, 1,100,000 scale of the IGM 2nd edition. 1955, as belonging to the Upper Pliocene (P3s), in fact the entire plateau is made up of calcarenites, sands and sandy clays. The calcarenites, in various points, are outcropping or in any case under a few tens of centimeters of sand and clay; they occur in compact formations. These geological peculiarities have meant that a significant extraction activity was concentrated on Mount Sabucina, presumably starting from the 17th century.
Today only the Michele Dell’Aira quarries are in operation, arranged homogeneously in the upper floor.
The quarries are located along the S.S. 122 Bis towards Ponte Capodarso about 10 km from Caltanissetta.
The quarries are open in a calcarenite bank of the upper Pliocene. The use of stone has ancient origins.
Table of results obtained from the identification tests of physical and mechanical properties performed at the Laboratory of Materials and Structures Tests of the University of Catania on samples of stone material called Pietra di Sabucina.
use of Sabucina stone
SABUCINA cut stone is supplied in blocks and in various sizes.
Sculptures
Capitals
Lintels
Internal and external facing
Internal and external facing
Flooring, etc.
Michele Dell’Aira, owner of the Sabucina quarries, offers her customers various processes of the Sabucina stone. They are suitable for high quality wall coverings and building renovations where it is important to preserve an original structure of the buildings. Sabucina stone claddings are produced in various sizes; It is possible to carry out special measures on customer request in order to optimize any type of processing.
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The quarries and the stone of Sabucina
