Iron, copper, and lead are found in great abundance in the Tiyari Mountains within a short distance of Nineveh, where they crop out upon the surface, so that they cannot fail to be noticed.

Lead and copper are also obtainable from the neighborhood of Diarbekr.

The Kurdish Mountains may have supplied other metals.

They still produce silver and antimony; and it is possible that they may anciently have furnished gold and tin.

As their mineral riches have never been explored by scientific persons, it is very probable that they may contain many other metals besides those which they are at present known to yield.
Among the mineral products of Assyria, bitumen, naphtha, petroleum, sulphur, alum, and salt have also to be reckoned.