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Sulaymaniyah

Penjween ophiolite chromite

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What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Crystals and mineralsCrystals and minerals

Also reported: chromite, serpentinite, magnesite.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Stephanie Clifford from Arlington, VA, USA (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

Zagros suture ophiolite along the Iranian border with podiform chromite pods worked intermittently

Documented in Iraqi Kurdistan geological surveys.

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UXO legacy, border security

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