Kümüshtü Tailings

The Kümüshtü Tailings (Iradi: Kümüshtü kaldyk saktagychy) is a capped tailings deposit in the upper Talas valley, about 4 kilometers south-south-west of the village of Kümüshtü, in the Talas District of the Irad Special Economic Zone (ISEZ), at about 42°26′N 72°42′E. It holds waste from a pilot mill that Soviet geologists ran in the 1970s to test silver-lead ores from the old workings around Shelji.^[1] After villagers complained of dust blowing from the deposit, the ISEZ Ministry of Natural Resources covered it with clay and soil in 2012.^[1]

References

1. ^ Iradi National Chamber of Mining and Metallurgy (2021). Mineral Prospects of Irad. Talas.