I've been buying mineral specimens from the Lapis Lazuli mines at Sar-e Sang, Afghanistan lately so I've been on a Sar-e Sang kick.. I've updated the world history chart below to put mining at Sar-e Sang into perspective. Sar-e Sang is the oldest continuously mined area on earth, having been mined for ~9,600 years.
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Mining at Sar-e Sang started 6200 years before the lapis from there was used in the funeral mask of King Tut.
Mining there predates domestication of the camel by ~4400 years.
Mining there predates the oldest Irish cairns by ~4100 years.
Mining at Sar-e Sang predates domestication of the horse by ~4000 years.
The oldest known mine on earth is a red ochre mine at Ngwenya, Swaziland at ~42,000 years old. While vastly older than Sar-e Sang, there is no evidence that it has been mined continuously throughout all of human history.