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Mahd adh Dhahab

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The Mahd adh Dhahab, also known as the Cradle of Gold, is the leading gold mining area
in the Arabian Peninsula. It is located in the Al Madina province of the Hejaz region of
Saudi Arabia.
Gold was first mined in Arabia c. 3,000 BC. A second period of activity was during the
Islamic Abbasid period between 750 and 1258 AD. The latest activities by Saudi Arabian
Mining Syndicate began in 1936 using both open-pit and underground mines at Mahd
adh Dhahab (the Cradle of Gold). The Saudi Arabian Directorate General of Mineral
Resources carried out further gold exploration in the 1970s, following the 1971
suspension of the US$-gold exchange rate and the consequent rise in value of the metal.
Gold mining is done today by the Saudi Arabian Mining Company.

Antiquity
There is a possibility that the Cradle of Gold is mentioned in the Biblical story of the
Garden of Eden in The Book of Genesis. - "And a river went out of Eden to water the
garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads. The name of the first
is Pishon: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold; And
the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone." Research by
archaeologists Juris Zarins of Missouri State University and Farouk El-Baz of Boston
University indicates that the Pishon River may be the now dried up river bed that once
flowed 600 miles north east from the Mahd adh Dhahab area of the Hejaz c. 3000 BC.[1]
The site has also been identified with King Solomon's Gold Mine[2] Geologists have
found a vast abandoned gold mine. Among their finds are huge quantities of waste rock,
an estimated million tons, left by the ancient miners, still containing traces of gold.
Thousands of stone hammers and grindstones used to extract the gold from the ore litter
the mine slopes. Robert W. Luce said: Our investigations have now confirmed that the
old mine could have been as rich as described in biblical accounts.[citation needed]
References[edit]
C.A. Salabach at Focus Magazine
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