The Quarry

The pumice deposit on the island of Gyali amounts to about 100 million tons and is the largest deposit of pumice in Greece. Currently the annual production rate averages at 1 million tons.

In the case of steady production, the YALI® deposit will be available beyond the year 2100.

Disassembly and Loading

Yali® is mined in opencast mining without explosives with bulldozers. The bulldozers push the pumice stone from the mountain onto an automatic conveyor belt system, which transports the pumice stone to a separation plant.

In the separation plant the pumice is screened into different grain sizes, which are stored separately on large storage areas.

From the warehouse, the pumice is loaded by conveyor belt with a loading rate of approx. 1,000.00 MTS per hour directly into seagoing vessels up to 26,000.00 MTS.

The storage capacity of several 100,000 MTS and the shipment in large ocean-going vessel units make it possible to ship YALI® in a short time with consistent quality and thus also to provide it for large projects.