Mine detail: Karaburun-Izmir

Previously called 'Kalecik Mine'

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Location: Izmir, Turkey, Asia
Lat / long: 38.61849, 26.49609
dep_id: 10182304
mas_id: 4890350002
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Mercury
Operation type: Surface
Development status: Past Producer
other_matl: Cinnabar
work_type: Surface
Reporter: Minerals Availability Field Office (Mafo)
Year first produced: 1902
References:
  • Deposit:: BARNES, J.W. AND E.H. BAILEY. TURKE* MAJOR MERCURY MINES
  • Deposit:: TODAY AND HOW IT WAS MINED 8,000 YEARS AGO. WORLD
  • Deposit:: MINING, APRIL 1972, V. 25, NO. 4, PP. 49-55.
  • Deposit:: ERSECEN, N. KNOWN IMPORTANT MINERAL RESOURCES OF TURKEY.
  • Deposit:: MINERAL RESEARCH AND EXPLORATION INSTITUTE OF TURKEY.
  • Deposit:: APRIL 1980, P. 6.
  • Deposit:: GUNEY, M. MINING IN TURKEY. MINING MAGAZINE, SEPT. 1969,
  • Deposit:: V. 121, NO. 3, PP. 164-169.
  • Deposit:: SOZENI, A. GEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS ON THE GENESIS OF THE
  • Deposit:: CINNABAR DEPOSIT OF KALICEK/KARABARUN (TURKEY). TIME-
  • Deposit:: AND STRATA-BOUND ORE DEPOSITS. 1977, PP. 205-219.
  • Deposit:: YILDIZI, M., AND E.H. BAILEY. MINERAL DEPOSITS IN TURKEY.
  • Deposit:: USGS BULL. 1456, 1978, PP. 15-21.
  • Deposit:: WYLLIE, ROBERT J.M.*URKE* MAJOR MERCURY MINE TODAY AND
  • Deposit:: HOW IT WAS MINED 8,000 YEARS AGO - ETIBANK NOW OPERATES
  • Deposit:: UNDERGROUND AND OPEN PIT MINES AND FURNACES HG ORE
  • Deposit:: IN ROTARY KILNS. WORLD MINING, APRIL 1972, PP. 48-52.
  • Deposit::*ERCURY EXPANSION IN TURKE*MINING JOURNAL, AUGUST 2, 1968
  • Deposit:: P. 83.
  • Deposit::*URKEY IS GEARING UP TO BECOME A MAJOR MERCURY PRODUCER BY
  • Deposit:: 197*ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL, NOVEMBER 1968
  • Deposit:: P. 118.
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