MINES OF CYPRUS
HADJIPAVLOU MINE [Note – we have been contacted by Andreas Droussiotis who informs us that the mine we call "Hadjipavlou" used to be called "Chromio" by the locals and it belonged to EME. The houses above the mine were used for summer vacationing of the top managers of the EME group, which also includes the KEO winery and Vasiliko Cement Works. Since 2004 the houses have been used by the military. Between the North Face Ski Lift and the Sun Valley II (Hermes) Ski Lift lies another mine that the locals call "Hadjipavlos Mine". On the maps of the area it is called as such. Andreas does not know whether there is an ownership connection between the two or whether the "Chromio" mine was ever called Hadjipavlou Mine. Nor whether there is a connection between the Hadjipavlou Mine and the wealthy family of the same name in Limassol.] Mineral Chromite Directions Follow the road north from Troodos and, opposite the ski lifts on Mount Olympus, look for a radio transmitter on the right with a short tarmac road going up to it. Just before this on the right is a track signposted to Kakopetria. Follow this track for a mile and you will come to two stone buildings on the left. The track beyond this descends and curves back on itself and you will come to a track off left that leads down to the mine buildings below. Visited 2002 Remains The mine is believed to have ceased in 1982 and most of the buildings, etc are still in situ. Of the upper two buildings, one has an engine bed in the floor but no obvious sign of an exit for a winding rope. However, there are the collapsed remains of what looks like a wooden aerial cableway tower next to it. Also, on the other side of the track, where the bank descends steeply, there is a lot of chromite ore as if it has fallen off buckets as they come over the lip. This building is a mystery but maybe there was an aerial cableway up to it in the early stages of the mine. Next to it is a building with rails in the floor which could have been used for ore storage. Below at the main site, as you descend the track there is an office up on the right. The other side of this is a hopper and what may be the terminal of an aerial cableway. There is a grizzly above this and a platform where ore has obviously been dumped before passing through the grizzly. Below the hopper is a trommel. The next building along is a workshop with a large flywheel and electric motor. Then there is a winding house with an electric winder and double drum with cable. In front of this is the main shaft about 15ft square with a landing building built onto one side containing a hopper. Above the shaft are two large iron water tanks and below these a large building of unknown usage, although it appears to have contained machinery at one stage. Outside this are a small u-section mine truck and two cages of unusual design. They are open sided and conical but with a clip to hold a truck in place. Further on is an open adit with rails coming out to a tip. This has wooden props and there has been a bit of a fall just inside, although it seems possible to squeeze past. The track descends to a lower level where there is the terminal of an aerial cableway with about 10 buckets scattered around. The buckets were made of iron with wooden bottoms, 0.75m x 0.5m x 0.5m high. Pylons descend the hill in the direction of Agios Nikolas where we believe there was a processing plant at the road. We had no time to explore this or further downhill where there might be more workings or buildings.
Fallen cableway tower	Storage building			Main buildings		Hopper
Classifier	Open adit					Collapse inside
Mine truck	Two cages					Main shaft
Power plant	Electric winding engine					Aerial cableway terminal
						Cableway route down mountain

Revisit in 2003