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Divrigi iron skarn
Mineral locality Documented siteRestricted
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Crystals and mineralsAlso reported: magnetite, hematite, epidote.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Stephanie Clifford from Arlington, VA, USA (CC BY 2.0).
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Why this spot
Turkey's flagship magnetite skarn, mined at scale since the 1930s below the Seljuk Great Mosque
Divrigi is the classic Turkish iron deposit in ore-geology literature.
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
haul roads, high benches
Keep exploring nearby
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