Çöpler, İliç

Çöpler is a village in the İliç District of Erzincan Province in Turkey. The village is populated by Kurds of the Şikakî tribe and had a population of 289 in 2022.

Mining

In 1999, a gold-silver-copper ore deposit was explored near the village. The Çöpler mine started production of gold in 2010. Mining accidents occurred in June 2022 when a leak in the cyanide pipeline polluted the environment, and in February 2024 when a large mass of heap leach material slid down into the valley, and nine miners were trapped under the landslide.