Çöpler mine

Çöpler mine

Location
Erzincan Province
Country	Turkey
Production
Products	Gold

The Çöpler mine is one of the largest gold mines in Turkey and in the world.^[1] The mine is located in Erzincan Province.^[1] The mine has estimated reserves of 6 million oz of gold.^[1]

Çöpler is an epithermal porphory copper-gold deposit which forms part of the Middle Eocene Çöpler–Kabataş magmatic complex in central-eastern Turkey which formed on the north-eastern margin of the Tauride-Anatolide microcontinent. The intrusive rocks at Çöpler were emplaced into Late Paleozoic-Mesozoic metamorphosed sedimentary rocks. Dating of igneous rocks indicate a brief magmatic and hydrothermal history at Çöpler less than a million year long about 43.8–44.6 Ma. The composition of magma indicate it was generated in a convergent margin. Çöpler is, however, located to far away from the Maden–Helete arc and therefore must have formed in a back-arc setting, similar to that in the Bingham Canyon Mine, Utah.^[2]

References

1. "Turkey minerals" (PDF). gbreports.com. 2013. Retrieved 2013-07-03.
2. İmer, Richards & Creaser 2013, Abstract

Sources

• İmer, A.; Richards, J. P.; Creaser, R. A. (2013). "Age and tectonomagmatic setting of the Eocene Çöpler–Kabataş magmatic complex and porphyry-epithermal Au deposit, East Central Anatolia, Turkey" (PDF). Mineralium Deposita. 48 (5): 557–583. Retrieved July 2016. Check date values in: |access-date= (help)