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Elazig, Elazığ
Keban lead-zinc-silver mines
Mineral locality Documented siteGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Crystals and minerals
Coins and tokensAlso reported: galena, sphalerite, vanadinite, wulfenite.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Stephanie Clifford from Arlington, VA, USA (CC BY 2.0), West Yorkshire Archaeology Advisory Service, Amy Downes, (CC BY-SA 2.0).
Why this spot
Ottoman silver-lead workings and later fluorite mining above the Euphrates, partly flooded by the Keban dam
Classic Anatolian mineral locality in mining history and mineralogical records.
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
open stopes, reservoir edges
Keep exploring nearby
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