Mine detail: Konya Area

Previously called 'Buyuk MineMedrese Mine'

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Location: Konya, Turkey, Asia
Lat / long: 38.19872, 32.43489
dep_id: 10303838
mas_id: 4890420009
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Mercury
Operation type: Underground
Development status: Producer
other_matl: Calcite, Cinnabar, Fluorite, Quartz, Stibnite
work_type: Underground
Reporter: Minerals Availability Field Office (Mafo)
Year first produced: 1964
References:
  • Deposit:: BARNES, J.W. & E.H. BAILEY. TURKE* MAJOR MERCURY MINES
  • Deposit:: TODAY AND HOW IT WAS MINED 8,000 YEARS AGO. WORLD
  • Deposit:: MINING, 1972, VOL. 25, NO. 4, PP. 49-55.
  • Deposit:: BARNES, J.W., M.P. NACKOWSKI, & E.H. BAILEY. GEOLOGY AND
  • Deposit:: ORE DEPOSITS OF THE SIZMA-LADIK MERCURY DISTRICT,
  • Deposit:: TURKEY. CENTRAL TREATY ORG., JULY-SEPT. 1969.
  • Deposit:: GUNEY, M. MINING IN TURKEY. MINING MAGAZINE, VOL. 121,
  • Deposit:: NO. 3, 1969, PP. 164-169.
  • Deposit:: YILDIZ, M. & E.H. BAILEY. MERCURY DEPOSITS OF TURKEY.
  • Deposit:: USGS BULL. 1456, 1978, PP. 57-72.
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