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Kerman

Sar Cheshmeh copper mine

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What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Crystals and mineralsCrystals and minerals
Nails and fittingsNails and fittings

Also reported: molybdenite.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Stephanie Clifford from Arlington, VA, USA (CC BY 2.0), North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

One of the world's great porphyry copper pits, mined since the 1970s in the Kerman belt

Extensively documented deposit in economic geology.

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