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Safety and Environment

In a polluted environment as the mines is, establishment of proper policies, measures and meters is needed to lead to pollution reduction. These environment protection policies in combination with continuous monitoring of the pollutants lead to clean and harmless mining.

   For the Environment

  • Establishes the environmental policy of PPC SA, redacts environmental management procedures and control tools compatible with the government/EE laws about the environment and the company’s activities and practices to mitigate the pollution and the cost.

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  • Rehabilitated the permanent internal transportation network (150km long) with heavy duty asphalt pavement (3 layers sub-base gravel 15 cm thick, 3 layers base gravel 10cm thick, 4 layers base asphalt pavement 5 cm thick and 2 top layers 5cm thick asphalt pavement ) and improved the speed, the emissions and the gas/oil consumption of the internal traffic.

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  • Analysed the environmental impacts and created environmental policies, procedures, and statements to be approved by the government, and issued the legitimate mining permits. Designed and applied the mines and plans very complicated anti-fire system. Designed and applied anti-dust sprinkling systems on all roads and conveyor belts.

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  • Reclaimed all old outside/inside dumps to recreation areas with parks, forests, resting areas, automatic irrigation systems, small lazy rivers, small lakes with fishes, local wild fauna shelters, a European championship specifications moto cross race way, a small airplanes corridor, industrial parks, walking paths, roads, and more.

   For Safe Mining

  • Establishes pillars with permanent reflectors on the top, every 100 m of the permanent slopes of the mines

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  • These Pillars were measured daily  from CPs established at the permanent slopes on the opposite side of the mines. 

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  • Analogous set-up established for the mines fronts. The measurements analysed statistically and the moving acceleration was calculated.

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  • Αccelerations up to 2cm/day were considered safe but if this limit exceeded more attention was payed and most often measurements were taken and in some cases the mines fronts were emptied.

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  • During his 22 years mines career, monitoring slopes, happened 3 land slices with zero harmness and zero damages as nobody was hurted  and all working equipment there, had timely removed.

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