Thread: "Turkey stone" quarry?

Originally Posted by ferroburak

Does this mean antything to you?

From Elounda Web:

The name “OXA” comes according to our traditions from corruption of the word “NAXOS” which was the name of the ancient Minoan town “NAXOS” synchronous of the ancient olous whose probably was the acropolis and was inhabited, after the earthquake of 1450 b.c., by the Oloundians because of the catastrophe of ancient olous.
Mythology says that “Naxos ” had been build by “Naxos” the son of Akakalidos, King Minos daughter.

“Naxia lithos” is the name given by the ancient Greek poeter Omiros for the stone (hard white “akoni”) which is excavated by the local people in mountainsides of Oxa and in the surrounding hills of Elounda.

Regards,
Neil

Originally Posted by Neil Miller

From Elounda Web:

The name “OXA” comes according to our traditions from corruption of the word “NAXOS” which was the name of the ancient Minoan town “NAXOS” synchronous of the ancient olous whose probably was the acropolis and was inhabited, after the earthquake of 1450 b.c., by the Oloundians because of the catastrophe of ancient olous.
Mythology says that “Naxos ” had been build by “Naxos” the son of Akakalidos, King Minos daughter.

“Naxia lithos” is the name given by the ancient Greek poeter Omiros for the stone (hard white “akoni”) which is excavated by the local people in mountainsides of Oxa and in the surrounding hills of Elounda.

Regards,
Neil

Hi Neil,
I guess Naxos is an island in Aegian region. Google earth gives a detaled map of it. In fact I have located stone rocks very similar to hones via google earth pictures!

And there is more to say about it.. I will update after I collect some more data.

Originally Posted by ferroburak

Hi Neil,
I guess Naxos is an island in Aegian region. Google earth gives a detaled map of it. In fact I have located stone rocks very similar to hones via google earth pictures!

And there is more to say about it.. I will update after I collect some more data.

Naxos is a ancient Greek city on the Greek island of Crete.

There is also a island called Naxos so I can see the confusion it would cause.

Correct Basil, got this from the Wikipedia site.

Emery is a very hard rock type used to make abrasive powder. It largely consists of the mineral corundum (aluminum oxide).

Crushed or naturally eroded emery (known as black sand) is used as an abrasive — for example, on an emery board, as a traction enhancer in asphalt and tarmac mixtures, or as used in mechanical engineering as emery cloth.

The Greek island of Naxos used to be the main source of this industrially important rock type. It has been mined on the eastern side of Naxos for well over two thousand years until recent times. However, demand for emery has decreased with the development of sintered carbide and oxide materials as abrasives