A park, a lake and great 
tasting olives: How to rehabilitate 
an open cast mine

Nothing should go to waste. The contemporary push for sustainability has been our mantra from day one: what is left after we get caustic calcined and dead burned magnesite or monolithic refractories, is still our soil and our land to pass on. Hence the olive groves in Yerakini, Chalkidiki, one of Greece’s richest olive producing regions and a renowned tourist destination. The ongoing project started in the ’70s and highlights our concept of giving back to the environment.