"دليل بلاد فارس. مجلد I" [و‎‎٢‎٦‎١] (٨٢٠/٥٣٨)

The contractor’s working expenses (excluding the pay of the establish
ment! viz the cost of gunpowder, oil, etc., are said to amount to abou
120 limans a week, and the outturn comes to between 300 and 400 iumans
& The^axes realized by the contractor, besides the _rent of the turquoise
and salt mines sub-let to the miners, are 8,000 *wwamfrom_ 400 families
of the miners living in the two Ma’dan villages, and ihO tumans from the
inhabitants and owners of other villages in the Ma’dan district.
The miners are not paid in cash, their wages being accounted for towards
the payment of taxes. , . . ^,
The out-turn of the turquoise mines during the_ year 1896-97 is sta ed
on good authority to have amounted to 19,000 tumans.—{C. E. l ate, 18^7.)
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10^ May 1899.—In the afternoon I visited the Ma’dan-i-Ra ishi in
a hill overlooking Ma’dan. 1 t, - • n
Below it on the opposite side of the hill is the Abd-ur-Razaq mine, and
below it again lie the Dikud Bam and Chiragh Kush mines.
llth May 1899.—In the forenoon I visited the Ma dan-i- Abd-ur-Rr zaq.
It lay about half a mile from the village and some 500 feet up the hi .
The outside is a great cave in the rock which contains several galleries, all
of which have separate names.
The Malik-ut-Tujjar of Meshed has farmed the turquoise mines at an
annual rent of 24,000 tumdns for ten years. This siim includes the rent
of salt mines, which are four in number, together with millstone quarries
and the village of Ma dan.
The following mines are worked at present:
1. Karbalai Hasani.
2. Ra’ishi.
3. Mirza Ahmadi.
4. Karbalai Kaiimi.
5. Zaki.
6. Tilai.
7. ’Abd-ur-Raz^q.
These mines are named after the persons who worked them in former
It is said that the best turquoises are found in the Karbalai Kaiimi mine,
but the ’Abd-ur-Razaq also produces really good stones. Owing to no
money being expended the mine fell in and was not worked for a long time.
It is now being worked again. _ .
The ’Abd-ur-Razaq mine is situated m a hill known as Kuh-i-Abu Ishaqi,
and near to it there are the following mines which, being filled^up, a,re not
worked at present, and are considered parts of the ’Abd-ur-Razaq mine
1 Rashid Khani.
2. Pustini.