OUR Greek gold carries out one of the largest foreign direct investments in the country with numerous benefits for the economy, society and the environment and, as a modern mining company, implements the most responsible practices in the sector.

With an eye to the future, the company is planning and launching a project with state-of-the-art specifications to further reduce its environmental impact. The adoption of internationally recognized environmental practices optimizes production activities so that they leave a positive economic footprint in the areas in which they operate. Some of them are described below.

New technologies to reduce environmental impact by 40%

Ellinikos Chrysos mining projects use the best available technology to protect the environment with the most important technologies. dry storage, the most modern and safest method of handling mineral residues remaining from ore processing.

In addition to the impressive water savings achieved by drying the residues, this technology makes a decisive contribution to reducing the overall environmental impact by reducing storage volume, as well as increasing geotechnical safety, since the solid form of the residues improves their geostatic behavior compared to originally wet.

Since the application of this technology at the Skurion project, the required number of tailings has been reduced from two to one, which in practice means the release of the stream and the reduction of the environmental impact of the project. by 40%.

New Integrated Waste and Water Management System The Skourion mine will cost about 130 million euros and, in addition to the safe storage of mining waste, also guarantees maximum protection and use of water.

Environmental responsibility and transparency in mining activities

OUR Greek goldwith a heightened sense of responsibility towards the local community, developed and implemented an award-winning Environmental Monitoring Programone of the most sophisticated related programs in Europe that monitors and records among other indicators such as water and air quality, soil and other parameters at more than 400 control points, publishing real-time data in an accessible way for all special open platform.

Parallel rehabilitation in practice

As an ambassador for responsible mining, Hellinikons Chrysos makes it a reality. Parallel rehabilitationcarrying out works to clean up and restore the land to its former natural state, where mining has been completed.

At the same time, the company is implementing one of the largest environmental remediation projects from previous mining activities, removing 3 million tons of mining waste to date. One of these spaces has given way to one of the largest nurseries in Europe, which is located in the ecologically restored zone of the Olimpiada mine and contains 1,000,000 plants of endemic and native species. Through this, in addition to the needs of environmental restoration projects, the needs of the local community and the respective municipalities are also met.

In Skouries, where a combination of underground and surface mining is planned, mining waste will be processed and reused both for filling underground tunnels using stone fill technology, and for a quarry that will complete its mission earlier and fully restore its physical condition.