Armenian Genocide subsoil and industrial losses / 1919-2015

Copler Gold Mine

gold / mine. estimated reserves of 6 million oz Çöpler Gold Mine , owned by Alacer Gold, with estimated reserves of 6 million oz. of gold, located south-west of Erzincan, (Armenian Երզնկա Yerznka), an ancient Armenian city, Acilisene, where in 387 AD Armenia was divided between the Byzantine and Persian Empires. There are references to a pre-Christian cult center of the goddess Anahit in the city and it is mentioned by Koriwn as Yekghiats, in his biography of Mashtots. The region had a majority Armenian population, 11 monasteries and 33 churches.

People layerArmenian
Typeeconomic-loss
Coordinates39.46, 38.56
Confidencemine-area coordinate; needs footprint review

Record dossier

Provenance, geocoding, and review state

This page is generated from the unified Genocide Atlas record layer. It preserves dataset origin, source record id, place authority, geocode method, and review status so each map object can be audited independently.

Dataset

Armenian Genocide subsoil and industrial losses

Source record

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Place authority

Copler / Ilic / Erzincan

Review status

source-derived economic-loss point; verify coordinates against modern mine/field GIS before analytical use

Geocode method

controlled gazetteer from source place label

CSV path

/data/armenian-genocide/economic_losses_geocoded.csv

Geometry

Point coordinate core

Record graph

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Method note

How this record entered the atlas

Extracted from the Arak29 Armenian Genocide Losses map/list via Data Catalog Armenia. Coordinates are controlled gazetteer anchors and remain flagged for mine/field footprint review.