Turkey lies at the geographical and cultural frontier between West and East, extending some 1,570 km from Bulgaria and the Aegean Sea in the west to Iran in the east and covering an area of 780,580 km².

The country has a history of mining that extends back to gold mining in pre-Roman times and has been actively engaged in base metal mining throughout the past century. More recently a new foreign investment law (2003) and extensive amendments to the 1985 Mining Law ratified in 2004 have created a very positive environment for further developments in the exploration and mining.

CIA Factbook - Turkey