Research into zeolite on the island of Kirk
The Municipality of Alexandroupoli is ready to submit an application for a mining exploration licence in the Kirkis area, where zeolite is believed to be present.
The catalyst for this process was the publication of the research by Dr. Kyriakos Arikas, a lecturer at the Institute of Mineralogy and Petrology at the University of Hamburg, in which he states that, apart from the zeolite deposit at Petrota, there are other exploitable deposits such as the one at Kirkis.
Yiannis Falekas, specialist adviser on energy and natural resources, discussed the topic of zeolite research with Stavros Apostolidis on the STATUS programme.
