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Sar-e-Sang lapis lazuli mines

Sar-e-Sang lapis lazuli mines, Afghanistan, mining lapis lazuli.

Why Sar-e-Sang lapis lazuli mines is famous

Wikidata describes Sar-e-Sang as a town in Badakhshan Province. The lapis lazuli mining history is not yet sourced from an opened page; see NOTES.md.1

Sar-e-Sang lapis lazuli mines today

Mining in Afghanistan

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Places

Located inSar-e-Sang, BadakhshanSar-e-Sang lapis lazuli mines sits at Sar-e-Sang, Badakhshan.1

Trade routes

Shipped through hereBadakhshan lapis lazuli to EgyptThe route touches Sar-e-Sang lapis lazuli mines.2

Sources

  1. Wikidata item Q941919 (Sar-e-Sang) Wikidata (CC0)
  2. Lo Giudice A. et al., Multitechnique characterization of lapis lazuli for provenance study arXiv

From the Prospector Trails mining history dataset: each fact links to the source it was checked against. Figures are as the source gives them, in the money of their day. Not investment advice.

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