{"id":1664,"date":"2017-04-03T14:03:22","date_gmt":"2017-04-03T11:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.apsiou.org\/?post_type=portfolio&p=1664\/"},"modified":"2017-04-03T14:03:22","modified_gmt":"2017-04-03T11:03:22","slug":"minespits","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/apsiou.org\/en\/portfolio-item\/minespits\/","title":{"rendered":"Mines\/Pits"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The geographical location of the village, its \u201corigin\u201d in the Troodos Mountain, makes it a \u201csource\u201d of minerals and rocks. There were iron-pyrites and copper-pyrites mines in the village as well as a pit producing tiles and bricks.<\/p>\n

The mine for copper-pyrites started operating at the beginning of the 20th century, while the copper-pyrites mine around 1930. They both stopped working in the middle of the 20th century, in 1953. The existence of these two mines is now indicated by some crawlways.<\/p>\n

The first caretaker of the mine, according to Charidemos Georgiou, was a refugee from Asia Minor named Michalis Gavrielides.<\/p>\n

The workers at the mine were responsible for the extraction and the transportation of the minerals to the port of Limassol. That is why the passenger cars that used to transfer workers were also turned into \u201ctrucks\u201d by removing the back seats.<\/p>\n

What is more, there was a mineral analysis laboratory in Apsiou at the house of Lampros Antoniades. There was only one chemist, named Yiagos Kokkinos. Even today, the specific house is known as the villages \u201clab\u201d.<\/p>\n

It is worth mentioning that in \u201cKato Apsiou\u201d there was a factory of metal processing since the 19th century. Remains of molten metal are found in the area.<\/p>\n

Source<\/u><\/em>:
\nCharidemos Georgiou. \u201cMines and pits\u201d, in the magazine Apsiou-1995<\/p>\n