page_title: Yerakini
section_title: Magnesite mines
hierarchical_section_title: Yerakini / Economy / Magnesite mines
caption_attribution_description: English: Magnesite quarries area at Yerakini, Chalkidiki, Macedonia, Greece, Jun 2014
context_page_description: Yerakini or Gerakini is a village in the Chalkidiki peninsula in Central Macedonia, Northern Greece.
  It has been the port of nearby Polygyros, the capital town of Chalkidiki, ever since its settlement. Its beaches attract thousands of tourists and holidaymakers during the summer. It has the largest magnesite deposits in Northern Greece.
context_section_description: In the northern part, the mines of Yerakini, most residents are workers and technicians working at plants of the large Grecian Magnesite company, established in 1959, which mines ore, the raw material of magnesite. 
  The company operates many open-cast quarries in the area to the north, processes magnesite, and exports of products derived from caustic magnesia. It employs about 300 people.
  The company is 600 metres (0.37 mi) from the village, the kilns 800 metres (0.50 mi) away, and the quarries 1–3 kilometres (0.6–2 mi). Vessels come to the Nea Moudania harbour, 17 kilometres (11 mi) from Yerakini, on the Thermaic gulf, before the peninsula of Kassandra, to load magnesite
caption: Magnesite quarries in Gerakini
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