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Sarcheshmeh (سرچشمه) or Sarcheshmeh Copper Complex ( – Kārkhāneh-ye Mojtame‘-e Mes-e Sar Cheshmeh) is a large open cast copper mine in the Kerman Province of Iran, considered to be the second largest copper deposit worldwide. Also containing substantial amounts of molybdenum, gold and other rare metals. It is also a settlement, enumerated at Iranian census.
The Sarcheshmeh Copper Complex is located 65 km southwest of Kerman and 50 km south of Rafsanjan. The region's altitude averages about 2600m, the highest spot of which approximates 3000m. Sarcheshmeh ore bodies, situated in the central part of Zagros ranges, consist of folded and faulted early tertiary volcano-sedimentary rocks.
Sar Cheshmeh mine was managed by the Anaconda Group until the 1979 revolution in Iran. Design and construction of the processing plant was done by Parsons-Jurden of the US.
Production units of Sarcheshmeh Copper Complex involve the mine itself, concentrator, smelter, refinery, foundries and leaching.
Administratively, the settlement is in the Sarcheshmeh Rural District, in the Central District of Rafsanjan County, Kerman Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 53, in 14 families.
Sarcheshmeh is a copper mine in Iran.
Sarcheshmeh or Sar Cheshmeh or Sarchashmeh may also refer to:
- Sar Cheshmeh, Ghor, Afghanistan
- Sar Chesmeh, Wardak, Afghanistan
- Sar Cheshmeh, Bushehr, Iran
- Sar Cheshmeh, East Azerbaijan, Iran
- Sarcheshmeh, Hashtrud, a village in East Azerbaijan Province, Iran
- Sar Cheshmeh, Fars, Iran
- Sar Cheshmeh, Gilan, Iran
- Sar Cheshmeh, Golestan, Iran
- Sar Cheshmeh, Isfahan, Iran
- Sarcheshmeh, Jiroft, a village in Kerman Province, Iran
- Sar Cheshmeh, Rabor, a village in Kerman Province, Iran
- Sarcheshmeh Rural District, in Kerman Province, Iran
- Sar Cheshmeh, Khuzestan, Iran
- Sar Cheshmeh-ye Olya, a village in Khuzestan Province, Iran
- Sar Cheshmeh-ye Sofla, a village in Khuzestan Province, Iran
- Sarcheshmeh-ye Talkhab, a village in Khuzestan Province, Iran
- Sarcheshmeh-ye Mushemi, a village in Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province, Iran
- Sar Cheshmeh, Kurdistan, a village in Kurdistan Province
- Sar Cheshmeh, Kamyaran, a village in Kurdistan Province
- Shahrak-e Sar Cheshmeh, a village in Kurdistan Province
- Sar Cheshmeh, Chalus, a village in Mazandaran Province
- Sar Cheshmeh, Kelardasht, a village in Mazandaran Province
- Sar Cheshmeh, Bojnord, a village in North Khorasan Province, Iran
- Sar Cheshmeh, Esfarayen, a village in North Khorasan Province, Iran
- Sar Cheshmeh, Shirvan, a village in North Khorasan Province, Iran
- Sar Cheshmeh, Razavi Khorasan, Iran
- Sar Cheshmeh, Yazd, Iran
- Mes-e Sarcheshmeh, a city in Iran
- Cheshmeh Kabud, Mirbag-e Shomali, Iran, also known as Sarcheshmeh-ye Kabud
- Sarcheshmeh-e Kamalvand, Iran