Quarries Fox Marble quarry operations are built around extensive marble reserves. Current stone stock available as block, slab and cut to size comes from the quarries at Cervenillë, Syriganë and Malishevë in Kosovo and Prilep in North Macedonia. Together these produce nine varieties of stone found in Collections. Quarries can be environmentally intrusive. Wherever it operates, Fox Marble is committed to working to preserve the environment and operating in the most sustainable and efficient way possible. Fox Marble works closely with local environment ministries and agencies and ensures that all its staff are trained to implement its environmentally sensitive quarry plans. KOSOVO Rahovec The Rahovec area in Central Kosovo contains four separate quarries sites over which Fox Marble holds rights: Antennë, Cervenillë, Drin and Verrezat, which together cover over 256 hectares. Cervenillë Quarry Opened in November 2012, this was the first of the Fox Marble quarries. The quarry has been exploited across three separate locations (Cervenillë A, B & C) from which red (Rosso Cait), red tinged grey (Flora) light and darker grey (Grigio Argento) marble has been produced in significant quantities. This is a technically challenging quarry which is traversed by a number of minor faults and fissures shown as broken ground in the photo gallery below. Between those, however, the stone is compact and excellent quality and all the indications are that the next bench will be less challenging. The polished slabs from this quarry have sold well. Amongst the most noteworthy sale to date was Grigio Argento to St George PLC (Berkeley Homes) for the prestigious Thames riverside Chelsea Creek development. View fullsize COLOUR RANGE View fullsize INSPIRATION View fullsize LOCATION KOSOVO Malishevë In July 2013 the Company acquired the rights to the Malishevë quarry in Kosovo from a local company. The Malishevë quarry contains reserves of Illirico Selene and Illirico Bianco. Malishevë Quarry In July 2013 the Company acquired its first rights to quarry in the Malishevë area in Kosovo. The licence to the quarry is for 20 years with an option to extend the period by a further 20 years thereafter. In October 2015, the Company acquired the rights to explore a further 300 hectares and this led to the exploratory opening of the M3 quarry in late 2015 and confirmation of the exploitation rights in July 2016. Malishevë M3 proved to contain extensive reserves of the cream white Illirico Bianco and the silver-grey Illirico Selene - both excellent mid-market marble grade limestones. The two occur in alternating bands of varying thickness and, whilst the colour is different, the patterning is very similar, making the two stones, when processed, ideal and complementary twins. By early 2018, just over two full quarrying seasons since the first excavations at Malishevë M3, the quarry was open over 5 benches and had become the company's most productive extractive opertation - driven by strong and growing market demand. Initially it was the Illirico Bianco and its less marked variant, Illirico Superiore, that attracted most customer interest but, whilst sales of the white were consistent, the main customer focus shifted very quickly to the Illirico Selene. This was a major export from Fox Marble's Kosovo quarrying operations until mid 2019 when quarry production was temporarily suspended. Volume sales in block form, direct from the quarry, to India, China and Turkey have been complemented by strong sales of processed Selene from the Fox Marble factory. View fullsize COLOUR RANGE View fullsize INSPIRATION View fullsize LOCATION KOSOVO Syriganë The quarry at Syriganë (Suhogerll) contains a variety of the multi-tonal breccia and Calacatta type marble and produces significant volumes of breccia in large compact blocks. Output is marketed as Breccia Paradisea (predominantly red, grey and white) and Etrusco Dorato (predominantly gold, grey and white). Syriganë Quarry The quarry at Syriganë (Suhogerll) is Fox Marble's most spectacular quarry in terms of location. On a hillside high above the northern Drenica region, a visitor can see more than half of the country from its lip. Open across four benches the site has the capacity to produce significant volumes of Breccia Paridisea and Etrusco Dorato. Reserves within the licenced area will ensure that production could meet market demand for many decades. View fullsize COLOUR RANGE View fullsize INSPIRATION View fullsize LOCATION MACEDONIA Prilep The Company entered into an agreement to operate a quarry in Prilep, North Macedonia in 2013. The agreement is for a period of 20 years with an irrevocable option to extend the period for a further 20 years thereafter. The Prilep quarry contains the highly desirable Alexandrian White marble. Prilep Quarry This type of marble from the Pelagon region of North Macedonia has been used in a number of prestigious projects . Alexandrian White marble represents the most expensive marble in the Fox Marble portfolio. The Company’s first Alexandrian White quarry is known as Prilep Alpha. It is open and producing, and operations are being ramped up to meet growing demand. In August 2014 the Company acquired the rights to a second Alexandrian White marble quarry – known in the Company as Prilep Omega. This new quarry site is directly adjacent to the Company’s existing operations in Prilep. 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