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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 mineralsCrystals and minerals
Coins and tokensCoins and tokens

Also 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

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