6- ZAKAT ON MINES AND TREASURE TROVES
ZAKAT ON MINES AND TREASURE TROVES
A zakat of 2.5 percent is immediately due on:
a) the zakat minimum or more of gold or silver (gold or silver excluding anything else, such as iron, lead, crystal, turquoise, cornelian, emerald, antimony, or other, on which there is no zakat);
b) extracted from a mine (i.e. a site at which Allah has created gold or silver) located on land permissible for the miner to work or owned by him;
c) and that this amount of ore has been gathered by working the site one time. or several times uninterrupted by abandoning or neglecting the project.
The zakat is only paid after the ore is refined into metal.
If the person stops working the site for a justifiable reason. such as to travel (not for recreation, but for something such as an illness) or to fix equipment, then he adds (the ore collected after the interruption to that collected before. in calculating the zakat minimum).
Ore found on someone else’s land belongs to the owner of the land.
ZAKAT ON TREASURE TROVES
An immediate zakat of 20 percent is due when one finds a treasure trove that was buried in pre-Islamic times (N: or by non-Muslims, ancient or modern) if it amounts to the zakat minimum and the land is not owned. If such a treasure is found on owned land, it belongs to the owner of the land. If found in a mosque or street, or if it was buried in Islamic times, it is considered as a lost and found article.
(Source: The reliance of the traveller, revised edition, Edited and Translated by Nuh Ha Mim Keller)
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