The Fanian people who utilized the site extracted iron and reduced it into a final product.
Several holes can be found dispersed throughout the site, allowing sufficient ventilation and illumination for the miners working below.
[1] Archaeological specimens found at the site include stove walls used for iron reduction, blast pipe fragments, pottery shards, and slag heaps.
[1] In addition to being used as a source of iron and processing location, the mine was also used as defensive shelter for the Fanians during raids from the Ouaddai Kingdom.
[1] This site was added to the UNESCO World Heritage Tentative List on July 21, 2005 in the Cultural category.