Armenian Genocide subsoil and industrial losses / 1919-2015

Mardin Phosphate Mine

phosphate / mine. over 200 million tonnes of ore (grade 11%) Mardin Phosphate Mine , owned by Eti Maden (Parent - Savings Deposit Insurance Fund of Turkey), in southeast Turkey, one of the largest phosphate reserves in Turkey, with over 200 million tonnes of ore (grade 11%). Mardin is an ancient Armenian city and episcopal see of the Armenian and Assyrian Churches. It was ethnically cleans during the Armenian Genocide of both the Armenian and Assyrian populations, which numbered nearly 20,000. St. Gregory the Illuminator church was founded in Mardin in 420.

People layerArmenian
Typeeconomic-loss
Coordinates37.312, 40.735
Confidencecity/regional mine coordinate; needs item-level GIS 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

div13

Place authority

Mardin

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.