[2] Following the exploration of the epithermal gold-silver-copper ore deposit in 1999 near the Çöpler village in the İliç district of Erzincam Province, eastern Turkey,[3][4] the company Anagold Alacer Inc. was founded by the American Alacer Gold Corp. and the Turkish Lidya Mining Co., a subsidiary of the Çalık Holding in a 80/20-share basis.

[5] In 2020, Alacer Gold Corp. merged with the Canadian SSR Mining Inc., which moved its headquarters from Canada to Denver, Colorado, United States.

The company added 5.83 ha (14.4 acres) to the mining area in August 2023 without the need of an EAI report.

Dating of igneous rocks indicate a brief magmatic and hydrothermal history at Çöpler less than a million year long about 43.8–44.6 Ma.

Çöpler is, however, located too far away from the Maden–Helete arc, and therefore must have formed in a back-arc setting, similar to that in the Bingham Canyon Mine, Utah, United States.

[2] By June 2019, the company reported that it is planned to extract more than 10 million ounce (oz) of gold.

[5][13] On 13 February 2024 a disaster occurred when a huge mass of heap leach material slid towards a creek, and nine miners were trapped under the landslide.