From virgin clay to mature mud

The mineral or telluric component of thermal mud is inextricably linked to the Euganean district as it is collected only from the authorized sites in the Euganean Hills.

 

After prolonged contact with thermal water, in specific conditions of temperature and light radiation and after an appropriate maturation process, virgin mud takes on the characteristics of mature thermal mud with curative properties.

 

The collective brand of origin called “Fango D.O.C. – Thermae Abano Montegrotto – Veneto Region” is attributable only to mature mud obtained from Pleistocene-Holocene gray-blue clays and silts (see the Geological Map of Italy, Sheet 147) collected from sites located in the lands of the municipalities of Abano Terme, Arquà Petrarca, Baone, Battaglia Terme, Due Carrare, Galzignano Terme, Monselice, Montegrotto Terme, Teolo, and Torreglia which have the same geological genesis of the materials currently extracted from the current mining concessions.

 

The essential elements for obtaining mature thermal mud are as follows:

• the liquid component consisting of thermo-mineral water with particular characteristics of temperature and chemical composition,
• the mineral component of the “mud matrix” characterized by a specific chemical and granulometric composition,
• the biological characteristics of the ecosystem where the maturation process occurs,
• the maturation process.

 

Given to what we have already written about the essential elements for obtaining the Euganean thermal mud and the particular requirements determined by the maturation process in direct contact with the thermo-mineral water, Euganean thermal mud can be considered a thermal resource whose extraction is ruled by the current regulations.

 

 

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