The Faynan copper district in Jordan is one of the most important historic and long-lived mining sites in the Old World with a 9,000-year-history of copper ore (pigment) production, and 5,000 years of copper smelting from the Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Ages to the Roman and Early Islamic periods. It is located in the Wadi Arabah, the Dead Sea rift-valley system that extends from the Dead Sea to the Red Sea. Ongoing Cenozoic strike-slip movement has displaced the Faynan copper district 100 km northward, from the geologically identical and equally famous ancient Timna copper district along the Gulf of Aqaba...
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