Armenian Genocide subsoil and industrial losses / 1919-2015

Murgul Copper Mine

copper / mine. 40 million tonnes of copper ore (reserve), one of the largest copper mines in Turkey Murgul, Copper Mine , owned by Eti Maden IGM, a Turkish state-owned mining and chemicals company, (parent - Savings Deposit Insurance Fund of Turkey), in Ardvin, located 30 km from the Black Sea, part of Russian Armenian Provinces until WWI, has 40 million tonnes of copper ore (reserve), one of the largest copper mines in Turkey. Ardvin city was 76.4%, according the 1897 census, but the countryside was largely Turkish. The region has a long Armenian history, particularly in Bagratuni period (9th-11th centuries) and had 5 large churches and a school.

People layerArmenian
Typeeconomic-loss
Coordinates41.279, 41.556
Confidencetown/mine 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

div15

Place authority

Murgul / Artvin

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.