Aydarken (; or more recently Айдаркен) is a cityLaw 27 September 2012 No. 168 on the transformation of individual urban settlements of the Kyrgyz Republic and relating them to the category of village or city
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Batken Region Batken is a Regions of Kyrgyzstan, region of Kyrgyzstan. Its capital is Batken. It is bounded on the east by Osh Region, on the south, west and north by Tajikistan, and on the northeast by Uzbekistan. The northern part of the region is part of th ...

Kyrgyzstan Kyrgyzstan, officially the Kyrgyz Republic, is a landlocked country in Central Asia lying in the Tian Shan and Pamir Mountains, Pamir mountain ranges. Bishkek is the Capital city, capital and List of cities in Kyrgyzstan, largest city. Kyrgyz ...

. It is part of the

Kadamjay District Kadamjay District (; ) is a district in Batken Region, in south-western Kyrgyzstan. The administrative seat lies at Kadamjay. The district area is , and its resident population was 201,457 in 2021. The largest town of the district, Kadamjay, is ...

. The population of Aydarken amounted to 12,031 in 2021. Aydarken is situated at about 2,000 m elevation, on the northern slopes of the

Alay Range The Alay or Alai Range (; ) is a mountain range that extends from the Tien Shan mountain range in Kyrgyzstan west into Tajikistan. It is part of the Pamir-Alay mountain system. The range runs approximately east to west. Its highest summit is Pik ...

Population

Aydarken Mercury Plant (KMP)

The Aydarken Mercury Plant (KMP) was the third largest producer of primary mercury in 2005. The ore reserves (which also contain

antimony Antimony is a chemical element; it has chemical symbol, symbol Sb () and atomic number 51. A lustrous grey metal or metalloid, it is found in nature mainly as the sulfide mineral stibnite (). Antimony compounds have been known since ancient t ...

) exploited are located in or near Aydarken. The

Minamata Convention on Mercury The Minamata Convention on Mercury is an international treaty designed to protect human health and the environment from anthropogenic emissions and releases of mercury and mercury compounds. The convention was a result of three years of meetin ...

includes provisions which will eliminate primary mercury mining."Kyrgyz Primary Mercury Mine Project"
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Gallery

Unusual minerals of Aydarken

File:Khaidarkanite-115177.jpg, Blue fur-like mass of acicular crystals of the Copper-Aluminium mineral Khaidarkanite (

Cyanotrichite Cyanotrichite is a hydrous copper aluminium sulfate mineral with formula Cu4Al2 SO4�2H2O, also known as lettsomite. Cyanotrichite forms velvety radial acicular crystal aggregates of extremely fine fibers. It crystallizes in the monoclinic system a ...

group), named for type locality Khaidarkan (a.k.a. Aydarken)Mindat ’Khaidarkanite’ https://www.mindat.org/min-7135.html Retrieved at 10.04 on Tuesday 21/5/24. File:Getchellite.jpg, Getchellite: double sulphide of Arsenic and Antimony: mass of scarlet crystalline material of resinous lustre on grey matrix File:Wakabayashilite-224103.jpg, Wakabayashilite: Arsenosulphide of Arsenic and Antimony: expanse of radiating, acicular, golden crystals File:Chursinite.jpg, Chursinite: an extremely rare arsenate of mercury: yellow microcrystals on matrix File:Kuznetsovite.jpg, Kuznetsovite: another rare arsenate of mercury: expanse of beige crystals File:Cave Calcite cor.jpg,

Calcite Calcite is a Carbonate minerals, carbonate mineral and the most stable Polymorphism (materials science), polymorph of calcium carbonate (CaCO3). It is a very common mineral, particularly as a component of limestone. Calcite defines hardness 3 on ...

cave formation: corallite forms ("spheroidalites", - dissymmetrical spherulites)

References

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