Author : Argyrios periferakis
Keyword : Keramos, chios, antimony, health impacts, geoheritage
Subject : Arts and humanities
Article Type : Review article
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Abstract : The Keramos antimony mines in Chios Island are not amongst the most well known mining endeavoursin the Islands of the Aegean, being overshadowed by more lasting and successful cases, such as those in Naxos and Serifos, to name but a few. Yet, their significance was great for the local society, whose prosperity followed the meteoric rise and fall of the mining enterprise, in two different and temporally distant periods. Antimony, despite its current status as a critical metal, and thus its value, could not, more than 50 years ago, be exploited in an economically viable way, in the studied historical and spatial context. The miners would suffer after the mines' closure, not just from relative poverty, but from the catastrophic health consequences of antimony mining. The mines and the associated mining facilities lay today almost forgotten and derelict. However, there is the possibility of their successful development into a thematic geopark, since they constitute a valuable geocheritage and cultural site
Article by : Argyrios Periferakis
Article add date : 2020-08-04
How to cite : Argyrios periferakis. (2020-August-04). The keramos antimonite mines in chios island, greece: mining history and current situation. retrieved from https://www.openacessjournal.com/abstract/70