VOLAKAS QUARRY
Within the mountainside of Falakro nearby Drama city in Northern Greece, F.H.L. has managed to create a quarry of outstanding production capability, working all around the year in 2-3 shifts per day. The F.H.L. VOLAKAS marble which is quarried there is named after the nearby village. Having an all-white background with beautiful grey or brown veins, is also why it is known as the “Carrara of Greece”. With a huge quarry area of over 120.000m², F.H.L. has managed to control over 50% of the total Volakas marble production worldwide. The marble blocks are quarried open-pit, as well as underground, through tunnel excavation, which is giving a unique supplying capacity. Yearly, over 9.000 containers with marble blocks, equal to over 300.000 Tons, are quarried, processed, stuffed on spot and transported straight from the quarry, which is connected with asphalt streets to the national road network, to Thessaloniki port, in order to be shipped out all over the world.
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FHL Privately Owned Quarries
The Group's Quarries
WHITE marble is created from metamorphism of a very pure (silicate-poor) limestone or dolomite protolith. The characteristic swirls and veins of many colored marble varieties are usually due to various mineral impurities such as clay, silt, sand, iron oxides, or chert which were originally present as grains or layers in the limestone. These various impurities have been mobilized and recrystallized by the intense pressure and heat of the metamorphism.
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