Diagnóstico do setor de rochas ornamentais do Estado da Paraíba.

Abstract

The ornamental stone and cladding segment experienced one of the largest growth of the Brazilian mineral sector, provided by both new types of utilization of these materials in the urban landscape, how much due to the technological advances that allowed the use and diffusion of several rocks not previously commercialized. In this context, the state of Paraíba has reserves of ornamental granites with types and characteristics equal to or even better than other more traditional producing regions in the sector. Thus, this study about the ornamental rock sector in Paraíba was conducted highlighting the main extraction sites and their physical characteristics and respective aesthetic standards, describing the primary processing plant and its respective technological characterization, aiming at the characterization of the sector, alerting the state, federal, industrial development and development agencies, the need to create basic geological research programs; training of human resources, developing projects and policies for the qualification and specialization of labor; encouraging support the exporting companies of blocks for the processing and exportation of rocks indicating the need for effluent treatment programs from the production of ornamental stones. As a result of this broad survey, it is concluded that the state of Paraíba and very promising for the production of ornamental stones, since much of the territorial extension and constituted by geologically favorable areas and that the granites Paraíba ornamental plants are in favor of market acceptance, especially the International; being, therefore, an economic sector of natural vocation and great capacity of currency generation.