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TURKISH MINING SECTOR NEWS

ESAN’S SUSTAINABLE GROWTH BY DIVERSIFICATION - Esan

HARPUT HOLDING COMPANY, NEW INVESTOR IN THE MINING SECTOR - Harput Holding

SETERM TEKNIK - Seterm Teknik

MB CRUSHER: ACCOUNTS OF CRUSHING FROM THE HEART OF BAVARIA - MB Crusher

ARDEF AND RPMGLOBAL - Ardef

SUCCESS BEGINS WITH SAFETY - Tüprag

NOT ALL FIRST AID IS THE SAME - Gürkan Özel

OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH & SAFETY PRECAUTIONS BEING INSURED INMINING EXPLORATIONS - Serdar Onur Avcı & Gökhan Kanaat

A GENERAL APPROACH TO THE CONCEPT OF SAFE-DRIVING - Yener Gülünay

WHY ARE THE OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENTS NOT DECREASING? - Gözde Metin

OHS IN DRILLING OPERATIONS - Sarp Ayken & Arda Ayhan

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sium plant with a fixed capacity of 2,350 kW, the largest solar energy auto-produc-tion facility in Turkey. In 2016, this plant generated 1,000 MWh of energy which, in combination with the Güllük project, prevented approximately 940 thousand kg of carbon emissions in 2016.

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Mining & Earth Sciences Magazine

ISSN: 2146-9423

Esan’s Sustainable Growth by Diversification

Mehmet Yılmaz, Chairman of TÜPRAG:

“Success Begins with Safety”

Harput Holding Company,New Investor in Mining Sector

Magnesium Solar Power Plant-Çifteler

4Spring 2017

For modern society, there is now a phenomenon that is not very utopian: The robots. Perhaps in the very near future, we will begin to use robots to meet the ever-increasing needs of common culture of humanity, especially in jobs that bear the risk of death. There are huge investments in this area, because it seems that the common culture will never want to settle for less. Thus, the lives that have been spent to obtain the raw materials that are thought to be endless will probably end in the very near future. This is a wish. However, it is doubtful that everyone can access these technologies. Moreover, even if conditions are perfect in terms of economic, technological and moral, this is still a future.

However, today the situation is different. Despite many technological developments, the growing OHS experience and the increasing ethics of our culture, people are still working and dying in these jobs. Increasing raw material demand and industrial production continue to assign more labor to more risky tasks. This is the continuation of a few thousand years of tradition in human culture.

Although we have experienced more recent accidents, I have not forgotten what I read, watched and listened about the Soma disaster which is still up-to-date. I thought a lot about it. Therefore, I proposed the theme of this issue as “OHS in the Mining Sector” when I was offered to be the editor of this issue of the magazine. The most important reason why I thought a lot about it was the numerous accusations mentioned in this disaster. Everyone was accusing each other for negligence, ignorance, lack of control, wrong politics, money ambition or deliberate movements. These accusations may all be true. On the other hand, they can all be wrong, too. Workers, chiefs, engineers, managers, bosses, politicians can be guilty. I did not see anyone happy about this accident. I’m not a judge either. That’s why I cannot blame anyone. My claim is that this is a cultural issue.

Soma was a nominal peak, but in terms of the story of the accident it was a repetition of the previous ones, and it was not the last, unfortunately. A society that has lost more people in traffic and occupational accidents than people who died in terrorist acts, needs to make a cultural breakthrough before a technological one to stop these recurring accidents.

As stated previously, mining, by its nature, is a profession that is carried out by taking vital risks and will be so until the robots take over the job. But why? The need for raw materials is an unignorable fact, but whom are these raw materials for? The death of some people for the welfare of some others is a situation that requires a serious ethical questioning and personally disturb-ing my conscience. Human is not a source. Human is the purpose.

After Soma, did our society make a moral inquiry? All we did was searching for a guilty and praying. And then it was Ermenek. Then Şirvan... And these were tens among the accidents. But we are now only interested in numbers. As mining accidents in-creased, deaths became statistics for society. Our culture, however, has kept its tradition alive.

Life before profit... This is the philosophy we should adopt socially to help settle the OHS culture. Never forget that we will either rise or fall together. This is a few thousand years old constant rule of being a society.

Safety first!

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Esan Receives “Best Innovation Project of the Year” Award

The Highest Grades are Achieved in Hot Mine

Siirt Madenköy Copper Mine Sold to Cengiz İnşaat

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Esan continues to draw attention with its pioneering practices in the mining sector.Esan received the “Best IoT” award in 2016 and in 2017 he was awarded the “Best Innovation Project of the Year” award by International Data Corpora-tion (IDC). Esan has made its business processes more secure, more efficient and integrated with its intelligent min-ing applications and has been appre-ciated in the competition where it is evaluated together with sectors such as finance, automotive with “Esan Un-derground Signaling Project”.According to the statement made by the company, the project is worthy of the award and is the first underground signaling project in the sector, using in-

Mariana Resources shared data from drilling work done on the Hot Mine project. While the drillings were con-centrated on the two new zones on the main vein, it was stated that the drilling areas were reduced to 25 m2 to provide more detailed data. It was emphasized that the drillings on a new line reached the highest grades achieved from the Hot Mine until to-day. It was stated that the continuity of the gold-copper mineralization on the main vein was confirmed with these drills. The best results from drilling studies were as follows:• HTD-71: 62,7 g/t Au and 69% Cu for 69 meters from the 210th meter• HTD-70: 8.3 g/t Au and 1.65% Cu for 63

Madenköy Copper Mine, operating in the Şirvan province of Siirt, owned by Park Elektrik, was sold to Cengiz Construction on 20.03.2017. In the statement made to KAP (Public Disclosure Platform) on the issue of Park Elektrik, it was announced that the assets of the company related to

telligent and wireless control and preci-sion positioning devices.Having a very wide network of orga-nizations, Esan operates in a total of 10 locations in Turkey and is also ac-tive abroad. This broad structure of the organization poses challenges and creates needs. So, with its digital trans-formation strategies, Esan makes tech-nology investments to turn this into an advantage and manages all processes with standard applications via a com-mon infrastructure and ERP system. Thus, Esan aligns new generation busi-ness applications and automation sys-tems with smart mining applications and technologies, integrating mining with technology.The structure developed by Esan’s intel-

meters from the 218th meter• HTD-70: 35.6 g/t Au and 1.46% Cu for 5 meters from the 225th meter• HTD-72: 19.4 g/t Au and 1.31% Cu for 34,5 meters from the 180th meter• HTD-72: 54.4 g/t Au and 1.30% Cu for 3 meters from the 192nd meter• HTD-69: 19.7 g/t Au and 2.1% Cu for 7 meters from the 351st meter• HTD-76: 1.4 g/t Au and 0.99% Cu for 33 meters from 357 meters• HTD-76: 6.1 g/t Au and 0.97% Cu for 11 meters from the 443th meter• HTD-73: 29.2 g/t Au and 0.40% Cu for 2 meters from the 110th meter• HTD-63: 13.8 g/t Au and 0.90% Cu for 1 m from the 13th meter• HTD-63: 4.6 g/t Au and 0.42% Cu for

concentrate copper production activities were sold to Cengiz Construction Indus-try and Trade Company for 195 million USD plus VAT by decision of the board of directors on 17.03.2017. In the state-ment, it was stated that the sale was paid in cash on 20.03.2017. On 17.11.2016, 16

ligent mining strategy is beneficial not only for the mining sector, but also for improving the application areas of infor-mation technologies. The project, which has an algorithm based on underground and plant conditions, was the IoT proj-ect that achieved the fastest success in terms of return on investment with its radar system and its structure allowing for underground route optimization.According to the company’s claim, this project also made a direct contribution to OHS and production in Turkey and achieved significant gains such as high OHS and operational efficiency thanks to the proven “Underground Signaling System”, the largest underground min-ing IoT project.

April 2017

15,5 m from the 78th meter• HTD-66: 4.6 g/t Au for 7.5 m from 115th meterOn the other hand, the company an-nounced that it would start drilling program in Ergama project, which it holds 100% of the shares. As part of the program, 7 core drilling studies will be carried out initially and it is stated that the works will be complet-ed in January of 2017. Glen Parsons, CEO of Mariana Resources, noted that there are many important projects in the region, and stated that if the min-eralization is detected as a result of the work, the drilling will be upgraded to the next stage.

March 2017

miners lost their lives in the same mine. In the statement made by the company to the KAP, it is said that after the land-slide, post-landslide uncertainties were effective in sales, while emphasizing this accident.

March 2017

8Spring 2017

Always Production, Always Export

Highest Employment Expectation is in the Mining Sector

Turkey’s Greatest Underground Metal Mine to Close in 2021

Mevlüt Kaya, the head of the Aegean Mining Exporters Association which is one of the locomotive sectors of Tur-key’s exports, said that the mining in-dustry is acting with the slogan “Always production, always export” instead of retreating to the brink in a crisis envi-ronment.Meeting with the İzmir Media Platform, Kaya gave information about the sched-ule the Aegean Mine Exporters Asso-ciation has been working on to increase mining exports. Explaining that Turkish mining has not yet found value and that the lobby is weak, Kaya continued:

Employers foresee a 16% increase in the net employment outlook for the Turkish mining sector; In April-May-June the recruitment rate is expected to reach the best levels. Manpower’s Employment Overview Survey for the second quarter of 2017 shows a 14% increase in the net employment out-look. The strongest recruitment ex-pectation is attributable to the mining sector, whose net employment out-look has increased by 16%.

No new reserves were found in the Çayeli Copper Operations, the largest underground metal mine in Turkey, located at the Madenli site of Rize’s Çayeli district after the exploration. The mine operation, which has been operating for 23 years, is planned to be closed in 2021.Ian Anderson, General Manager of Çayeli Copper Enterprises (ÇBİ), af-filiated to the Canadian First Quantum Minerals company, explained to the press about the issue. Anderson, who stated that copper prices have started to move up again after the crisis in the mining sector on a global scale, said that the increase in the dollar in Tur-

“We are leaseholders at mines owned by Turkish people and we do not have a lobby. We will manufacture and export by taking the sensitivities of the Turkish people to the foreground. Turkish min-ing has not yet fully found its value, but our URGE Project Center, R&D Center studies continue.”Mevlüt Kaya, who made striking ex-planations at the meeting of the İzmir Media Platform, expressed his hopeful developments in mining sector, espe-cially in natural stone. Kaya noted that the mining industry, one of the most powerful weapons of Turkey, has not

Compared to the first quarter of 2017, there is a 4% increase in the mining sec-tor despite the decrease in recruitment plans of 6 of the 11 sectors included in the survey. When compared to the same period of 2016 (2nd Half ), recruit-ment expectancies in 9 of the 11 sectors included in the survey were weakened while recruitment expectation in the mining sector increased by 13%.Globally, it is seen that recruitment plans for the next quarters are expect-

key negatively affects them. “The taxes increased due to the increase in the dollar. We closed the year with almost no profit. It was the first year in which CFI did not make a profit. We expect 2017 to be better. We aim to produce 1.2 million tons of ore run of mine in 2017. It is coming to the end of the CBI reserves and approaching the closing phase. Production processes in mining are getting harder for us. Therefore, investments will increase but income will decrease. This is very normal as you approach the end of the ore in un-derground mining.”Ian Anderson, stated that the time of the closing is related to metal prices,

been used effectively yet.Despite all the negativities, EMİB Presi-dent Kaya shared the knowledge that the export appetite of the sector is very high. It is noted that reaching the 2023 targets requires some motiva-tion, but if the obstacles are removed, the mining sector is the closest one to meet these targets. Kaya men-tioned that regarding to the exports increased to 5 billion dollars from 30 million dollars in 25 years, there is a potential to reach 2023 target, which is 15 billion dollars.

March 2017

ed to increase according to more than 14,000 employers in eight countries and regions in the Asia Pacific region. Al-though the general situation in Austra-lia has not changed from the previous quarter, the two main sectors of employ-ment, including the mining sector, have the strongest employment prospects since the fourth quarter of 2012. In New Zealand, the highest employment rate is seen in mining and construction.

March 2017

and according to actual metal prices, this date is 2021.ÇBİ started producing copper and zinc concentrates for the first time in 1994. With an average of 500 employees, the mine, which has an annual average of 1 million tons of copper and zinc pro-duction, descended 600 meters down from the ground with a 6-kilometer road network. Approximately 21.5 million tonnes of mine reserves were removed in 23 years at Çayeli Copper Operations, which was acquired by Canadian First Quantum Minerals in 2013.

January 2017

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Alpagut-Dodurga Lignite Enterprises (ADL)Underground Mine will Restart Production

22 Projects in the Mining Sector Received Incentive Certificates in the First Two Months March

Öksüt Mining was the Only Mining CompanyAwarded in Bonds & Loans Turkey Awards 2017

Many Companies Including Eti Maden, TPAO and BOTAŞhave been Transferred to Asset Fund

AKP’s Provincial Chairman Mehmet Karadağ announced the production restart of underground mine Alpagut-Dodurga Lignite Enterprises (ADL), af-filiated to Turkish Coal Enterprises (TKİ).

In the mining sector, investment incen-tive certificates were issued for a total of 22 projects in January and February. According to the Ministry of Economy, in January and February, a total of 994 projects operating in the agriculture, manufacturing, service, energy and mining sectors were entitled to receive the investment incentive certificate. The fixed investment amount of the projects that were awarded incentives

The most prestigious awards of the Turk-ish financial markets and the financial sector Bonds & Loans Turkey awards or-ganized by the Global Financial Confer-ences (GFC), took place in Istanbul. Öksüt Mining granted the award for the 150 million dollars loan agreement with Uni-credit Bank AG and the European Bank for

With the decision of the Council of Min-isters published in the Official Gazette, it was decided to transfer all Treasury shares in the capital of Petrol Taşıma AŞ, Turk-ish Petroleum AO, Petroleum AO and Eti Mining General Directorate to the Turkish Asset Fund. Among the other institutions PTT, Ziraat Bank and 6.68 percent share of

After the statement, Dodurga Mayor Mustafa Aydın reminded that mining is very important for the development of the province. About the meetings, Aydın mentioned that Dodurga was planned to

in the mining sector during this period was calculated as 418 million TL. Of the total 22 incentive certificates for min-ing investments, 6 were issued for com-pletely new investments while 16 were for expansion or modernization invest-ments. In fact, all 22 projects consist of domestic capital initiatives.In January-February 2017, among the investments eligible to receive incen-tives, the highest mining project with a

Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) at the event that the country’s leading financiers and company executives have gathered together. The credit agree-ment signed between Öksüt Madencilik, Unicredit Bank and EBRD is also the first ERBD mining investment in Turkey.Alper Sezener, General Manager of Öksüt

Türk Telekom are also transferred to Fund. It was stated that the Prime Minister was authorized to determine the reasons for hesitations that may arise with the trans-ferred institutions and to determine the principles of implementation if neces-sary. According to the statement made by the Prime Ministry, cooperation with

be a developed settlement until 2023. In addition to this, he underlined that reac-tivating the mine would lead to a signifi-cant reduction in unemployment rates.

March 2017

fixed investment amount of 167.4 mil-lion TL was the gold mine investment of TÜMAD Mining Company and this proj-ect was followed by ETİ Bakır AŞ’s cop-per mine project in Adıyaman with 125 million TL. With the realization of these investments, it is aimed to employ 621 people in the mining sector. In the same period of 2016, the number of projects eligible to receive incentives was 16.

March 2017

Mining, stated that they are deemed wor-thy to be a candidate by Unicredit for the award of “Natural Resources Financing of the Year” among the three candidates. He also mentioned that “We are happy and enjoyable as the only mining company nominated for the awards.”

March 2017

the stakeholders, including internation-al organizations will continue with no change in investment, operating policies and growth strategies. It is stated that all institutions mentioned in the resolution are 73.6 percent of the Treasury share in the Stock Exchange İstanbul (BİST).

February 2017

Spring 201711

Pasinex’ First Income from the Third Adit

Millions of Meters Drilling is Planned Until 2023

Pasinex Resources announced the sale of its first high grade zinc sulfide from Pinargözü zinc mine in Adana. In the statement, it is stated that an average of 46.82% of 991 tons of zinc sold.Daily, 120 tonnes high grade mineral zinc carbonate mineral without sulfur is pro-duced predominantly in the mine. In the past few months, the use of high-grade sulfur-containing zinc has begun with the start of the third adit. It was expected that the new adit would help to increase the total production by providing a sig-nificant increase in the production rate.In May 2017, Pasinex have released their 2016 financial results and they reflect a first-time net income for the Canadian entity of 829,906 dollars as a result of a strong profit from their 50%-owned Horzum AS Joint Venture Company in Turkey.

Energy and Natural Resources Minister Berat Albayrak gave important infor-mation about the sector in his open-ing speech during the “Coal Action Plan Workshop” held in Istanbul. The workshop included Albayrak, as well as public and private sector leaders and ministerial bureaucrats. Albayrak noted that Turkey’s installed electricity pro-duction capacity increased from 30,000 MW to 80,000 MW and that an increase of 50,000 MW was achieved and that an investment of 75 billion dollars was re-ceived, while they will be resolute with same performance in the new period. Albayrak stated that the energy ob-tained from coal has been increased from 12 percent to 16 percent. Albayrak emphasized that developed countries use coal resources as opposed to react-ing to the use of coal. Albayrak contin-ued his words as follows: “For electricity generation, the United States is using 45 percent and UK is using 39 percent coal. Take no offence but we will use this source. Today, the installed capac-ity is at ten thousands, with these re-

Highlights of the 2016 Year End Financial Results:1. Horzum AS 50%-owned JV compa-ny Financial Resultsa. The JV company produced and sold 26,462 tonnes (wet weight) of direct shipping ore (DSO) with an average grade of 32.5% Zn in 2016. This repre-sented a total production of 17.61 mil-lion pounds of Zn metal.b. The sales revenue totaled $11,658,361 which was approximately $440/ton of mined ore.c. The total costs for the year were $8,052,941 or about $304/ton of mined ore. These costs not only included rou-tine operating costs but also all explo-ration costs for the year.d. The net profit for 2016 was $3,605,420 or a 30.9% margin.e. During the fourth quarter of 2016,

serves; and I am leaving the ones we are yet to discover out. We will discover much more productive reserves in the coming period as a result of planned drillings. Within this scope, it does not really matter who says what.”Minister Albayrak stated that MTA has an important task in Turkey; “In the new era, MTA will play another role. It will work not only on coal but on all mines. We made very important decisions. The more you search, the more you will find. When MTA drilled 30 thou-sand meters in 2002, we raised it to 300 thousand meters. We set the target for 2017 at 1 million meters. Now we must raise these targets too. In the coming years MTA will continue to drill. We aim to reach a total of 3-4 million meters of drilling a year, jointly by the public and private sectors. We should complete drilling map of Turkey until 2023. We need to know what really is in the soil of the land we call the land of gold. Only this way we can use our local resources efficiently. “Referring to the importance of the

the JV company offset approximately $769,000 of its early stage property de-velopment costs against its revenues. The Company’s share of this adjust-ment was $385,000.2. Pasinex Financial Resultsa. As a result of the profit realized in the JV company, Pasinex recognized a $1,802,710 equity gain.b. The equity gain led to a net income for the year of $829,906 ($0.01 per share) after deducting operating ex-penses of $1,024,092.c. Total assets for 2016 were $4,065,789 up from $2,368,863 at the end of 2015. Total liabilities for 2016 were $282,818 down from $381,901 at the end of 2015. d. Shareholders’ equity was $3,782,971 at the end of 2016 versus $1,986,962 at the end of 2015.

November 2016

core bank planned to be established in his speech, Albayrak said, “We have made very important steps regarding the core bank so that the sector can produce better quality jobs to set a solid ground. We have made very im-portant steps not only in the context of Turkey but also in the different regions of the world in the context of explora-tion. MTA will look at how fast we can proceed in the projects to get results faster. I would like to give a very clear message here to 3 sectors. Especially academicians have very important du-ties. I am making a call from here. We expect more of their contribution in or-der to further develop the sector in Tur-key. When we look at the finance sector, we are trying to create the right mod-els. We expect their belief and more support to grow the industry. And our Private Sector... We have contributed so much until today, but in the following period we will continue our bold and vigorous investment without stopping it.” He concluded.

November 2016

12Spring 2017

Minister Berat Albayrak: Domestic Coal Share in Electricity Increased 23 PercentEnergy Minister Berat Albayrak as-sessed the electricity production fig-ures for the year 2016. Albayrak re-minded the goal of “More indigenous, more renewable” from the day he be-came minister. “We wanted to increase the share of domestic resources in electricity production by promoting. With the support we provide in this context, we have increased our elec-tricity production from domestic coal to 36,180GWh to 44,586GWh com-

pared to 2015. We increased our elec-tricity production from domestic coal by 23 percent compared to the previ-ous year.” Albayrak underlined that Turkey, which is dependent on foreign energy, should use coal as the primary source of electricity generation, as it is all over the world.Energy Minister Albayrak stated that the share of natural gas in electricity generation decreased and added “In 2015, 99,219 GW of electricity was gen-

erated from natural gas, and in 2016, natural gas production was 88,609 Gigawatt hours. In other words, we have realized more than 10 percent re-duction from the use of natural gas in energy production. We have reduced the impact of our energy production on the current account deficit.” Albayrak noted that in 2016, 8,400 of the 10,500 GWh increase in electricity production was from domestic coal.

January 2017

The Land in Şile will be Forest After Mining Activities

High Added Value Elemental Boron Obtained from Boron Ore

MTA Puts 820 Thousand Meter Drilling Work Out to Tender

Approximately 225 thousand square me-ters of land in Şile Sahilköy, whose min-ing activities ended, were transferred to İstanbul Metropolitan Municipality (İBB) with a price of 2,442 thousand TL by For-

Within the scope of the research project conducted by Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University and a defense industry com-pany, it was announced that 96% pure elemental boron product was obtained with a minimum ton value of $4 million from boron ore. For the first time in Tur-key, this new production of elemental boron can be used in the industry as a fuel additive especially in long-range missiles and space rockets.

1 million meter long drilling project to uncover the underground resources, which has been a hot topic within the sector as indicated many times by Turkish Minister of Energy and Natural Resources, Berat Albayrak, has been launched by the General Directorate of Mineral Research and Exploration (MTA). It has been declared by MTA that tenders are put out for 820,000m of drilling work.

est Regional Directorate.The İBB granted authorization to İSTAÇ, one of the İBB’s subsidiaries, for the op-eration of these areas with a casting ca-pacity of 1.9 million cubic meters. İSTAÇ

Head of the project team, University Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences Faculty Member Assoc. Dr. Mükerrem Şahin stated in his state-ment to AA that important R&D activi-ties have been carried out especially in recent years on boron.Şahin underlined that one of the most valuable product produced from the boron mine, where more than 70% of the world’s total reserves are located

As per article 15 of General Guidelines published by the Official Gazette, dated 07.01.2006 no.26046, the works planned to be open tenders are put out under two distinct titles. ‘Lignite Coal and Core Drilling Uranium Exploration’ and ‘Core Drillling Service Procurement’ tenders involve 460,000m and 360,000m of drill-ing in total, respectively. Tender documents which contain de-

will fill this area with excavation from urban transformation in Istanbul. These areas will be planted after being filled with earth land.

January 2017

in our country, is the elementary bo-ron and that the projects named “High Purity Elementary Boron Production System for Use in Rocket Fuels” were re-jected by TÜBİTAK in the first place, but they brought it to this stage.Şahin stated that the project is in the production stage now and he informed that the necessary accreditation and au-thorization procedures are continuing.

November 2016

tailed information on the locations and periods of drilling, from the following links: ‘Lignite Coal and Core Drilling Uranium Exploration’ tender:www.mta.gov.tr/v3.0/mta/ilan/148‘Core Drillling Service Procurement’ tender:www.mta.gov.tr/v3.0/mta/ilan/147

November 2016

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Koza Altın, Shares Latest News on its MinesKoza Altın İşletmeleri AŞ that has been assigned over to Turkey’s Savings and Deposits Insurance Fund (TMSF) shared latest news on its mines as per persis-tent inquiries by stock market inves-tors. According to company’s declara-tion; Himmetdede Mine: Open quarry and mine production operations are continuing. Mine service life has been extended by obtained permits. Çukuralan Mine: Open quarry and mine production activities are continuing. Ovacık Mine: Underground production has been continuing and mine produc-tion is maintained at full capacity. Kaymaz Mine: Mine production is con-tinuing. Open quarry activities are ex-pected to start in year 2017.

Mastra Mine: After acquisition of ex-pected permits, open quarry and un-derground productions and accord-ingly, mine production activities are expected to start. The company also elaborated on some of the permits that are recently acquired. Within this scope; acquired Environ-ment Permission and License Docu-ment based the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) report for the capac-ity increase of the Company’s Kaymaz Gold Mine Operation; according to the official letter issued by the General Directorate of EIA Permission and In-spection, will be valid until 16.12.2020. Kaymaz Gold and Silver Mine, 2nd ca-pacity increase has been granted EIA

positive by Ministry of Environment and Urbanization, General Directorate of EIA Permission and Inspection. Ac-cording to the official letter issued by the General Directorate of EIA Permis-sion and Inspection, the acquired Envi-ronmental Permit Certificate, to serve as basis for EIA Report will be valid as of 23.01.2021 for Himmetdede Gold Mine Operations. EIA positive deci-sions are given for Himmetdede Gold Mine Capacity increase project issued by the General Directorate of EIA Per-mission and Inspection, and for Mastra Gold Mine 3rd Waste Storage Facility Project.

November 2016

Metro Holding to Resume MiningMetro Holding that was prospecting in Aegean, Central Anatolian and Medi-terranean Regions in the previous years announced that they will resume their work, which was interrupted by various reasons. The Holding has declared that it has been decided upon to start legal processes for reevaluations of wrongful and malicious de-licensing judgement

and for renewal of gold prospecting license for İzmir, Karşıyaka; owned by Metro Gold Management Corporation, which is a subsidiary of Metro Mine Marketing Corporation that exclusively belongs to the Metro Holding, on the basis that the license was revoked by FETÖ/PDY.Company also stated that, recently, re-

quired appeals were made and work has been done to re-operate the mines in Manisa, İzmir, Mersin, Konya, and An-talya. On the other hand, another state-ment from the company reveals that confidential meetings were being ar-ranged to purchase the shares of Koza Holding Corporation.

November 2016

Turkey’s First Mining Training and Implementation Center

Collapse at the Şirvan Copper Mine Claimed 16 Lives

İstanbul Technical University (ITU) launched the Taş Bina Mining Training and Application Center, which will up-grade Turkey’s R&D and security appli-cations to be produced in the mining sector. ITU will transform the theoreti-cal education in the Mining Engineer-

16 miners lost their lives due to a land-slide at Şirvan open pit copper mine, which was operated by Park Elektrik AŞ, located in the village of Maden, con-nected to the Şirvan district of Siirt.According to the statement made by

ing Department into a mine applica-tion, and it will be the foundation of Turkey’s safest mining site. Taş Bina Mining Training and Application Cen-ter opened on Thursday, December 22, 2016, with a ceremony held at Akdağlar Agrega Mine Quarry. The mining engi-

the Siirt Governor’s Office, on the 17th of November at 20:30, the large amount of soil and rock from the hillside is said to be slide down into the mine, while the shift consist of 15 miners were in the mine site. During the incident, along

neering students who will be trained in the Akdağlar Agrega Mine will be able to practice the mine safety measures, open pit mining, mineral preparation and explosive materials, as well as in-ternship and finishing work.

December 2016

with 16 miners, the trucks and heavy equipments trapped under the dent. Landslide is predicted to be caused by excessive rainfall.

November 2016

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Alacer Gold’s 2016 Review

Kolin-Kalyon-Çelikler Group Made the Lowest Bid for Çayırhan

Eren Holding Builds Cement Factory in Cameroon

Alacer Gold, which operates a gold mine jointly with Lidya Mining in Erz-incan İliç, shared its 2016 evaluations with its investors. Rod Antal, President and CEO of the company, stated that they have had many turning points in 2016 and that they have three impor-tant initiatives to grow the company. According to Antal, the first of these is the start of the Sulphite Extension Project, which will extend the life of the mine over 20 years and is planned to be completed next year. The second initia-tive is the discovery of a new mineral source at Çöpler in concordance with the 2018 oxide ore production targets. As a third initiative, Antal showed a pre-feasibility study for Gediktepe, which is a project outside of Çöpler.

In the final negotiation of the electric-ity generation and coal reserve areas privatization tender held in Çayırhan, which belongs to Electricity Generation Inc. (EÜAŞ), Kolin-Kalyon-Çelikler Joint-Venture gave the lowest offer of 60.4 dollars per megawatt.Fina Energy Holding Inc., IC İçtaş Energy Investment Holding Inc., Kolin-Kalyon-Çelikler Joint Venture Group and Limak Investment Energy Production Opera-tion Services and Construction Com-pany participated in the tender held under the chairmanship of Bekir Emre

Eren Holding has opened the fourth cement factory in Cameroon. Eren Holding acted upon the call of Presi-dent Erdogan to invest in Africa, open-ing the cement factory that he built in the industrial and commercial center Douala city of Cameroon.The factory is the 4th cement factory of country. It is planned to increase trade volume between the two coun-tries with an investment of 30 million

The following points were noted in the report on the significant developments experienced in 2016:• The company’s board of directors ap-proved the construction of the sulphite project on May 12, 2016.• 21% of the sulphite project is com-pleted and the first gold cast is sched-uled in the third quarter of 2018. By 2016, the project had spent $ 158 mil-lion.• While the signing of a 350 million dollars loan agreement was announced during the year, the parties involved were BNP Paribas, ING Bank Inc, Societe Generale Corporate and Investment Banking and UniCredit Bank Austria AG.• In the course of the construction works in the sulphite project, the com-

Haykır, Vice Chairman of the Privatiza-tion Administration.The technically completed tender will be presented to the Energy Market Regulatory Authority (EPDK). After the approval of the Higher Board of Priva-tization Administration, the right to transfer the right of operation over the unit price at which the lowest bid will be valid, will be signed and the transfer to the buyer will be realized. It is stated that the 15-year purchase guarantee will be applied on the unit price of the electricity contract produced in the

euros. Cameroon Prime Minister Phi-lemon Yang made the opening of the factory. Turkey’s Yaounde Ambassa-dor Murat Ülkü, Camerun Minister of Industry, Mining and Technology Er-nest Gbvvaboubou and Eren Holding Board Member Emre Eren attended the opening ceremony. It is expect-ed that the cement factory, which aims to produce 600 thousand tons, will increase the annual cement pro-

pany has sold 195,783 ounces of gold in the course of the risk reduction project.• A preliminary feasibility study was published for the Gediktepe project and 50% of the Gediktepe project was announced to be completed.• The results of the 4th phase drill-ing program and resource estimation work in Çakmaktepe project were published.• Expansion efforts to expand the mas-sive leach area to 58 million tonnes have been maintained.• At the end of the year it was stated that there was an average of 3.38 g / t Au (about 770,000 ounces gold) in 7.1 million tons of sulphide stocks.

February 2017

mentioned area.Kolin Construction Tourism Indus-try and Trade Inc. Board Member Celal Koloğlu stated that a total of 800MW power plant will be installed in Çayırhan, where they are the lowest bidder for the privatization bid, “Invest-ment of 1.1 billion dollars will be real-ized here. 500 people will be employed in the plant, 1,500 people will be em-ployed for coal mining and a total of 2,000 people will work in the coal ex-traction process.“

February 2017

duction in Cameroon to 4.3 million tonnes. Taha Özbey, General Manager of the Medcem Factory in Cameroon, expressed that the plant has shown itself as a demonstration of sincere diplomatic relations between the two countries, “This investment is a result of cooperation between Turkey and Cameroon. We are proud of finishing this project.”

February 2017

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Chrome Prices Continue Increasing,Low Interest Towards ManganeseChrome prices continue to fluctu-ate. Pursuing Chinese demand on chromium, together with the effects of supply chain uncertainties on the market affects Turkish producers, as well. As of November, Turkish export-ers price 46-48% concentration chro-mium as 440-450 USD/Mt, 40-42% lump chrome ore as 420-430 USD/Mt, with 40-42% lump chrome ore price negotiations reaching as high as 410 USD/Mt. These figures were observed to be lower than 200 dolars only a few months ago.

In October, South African chrome ore price uncertainty had caused an in-crease in Turkish chrome ore prices. This increasing trend in prices are not level-ing off. Continuing intensive chrome demand of China caused by stable fer-rochrome production are thought to be the reasons of this increase. As big producers make strategies according to the markets by keeping the production low, small producers that have already stopped production are reported to be ready to resume production. Consider-ing the problems in supply, prices are

expected to keep increasing in the up-coming period.Although manganese producers ben-efit from continuing high Manganese demand from China, Turkish manga-nese ore is not preferred by the Chinese markets. A local company declared that a price of 7.2 USD/Dmtu for 42-45% manganese concentrate has been of-fered. As no feedback on the offer has been received, it is speculated that Chi-nese buyers may not be interested in Turkish manganese.

November 2016

Maximum Production in Solid Fuels is in Lignite

Inerma “International Energy Raw Materia is and Energy Summit” will Be Held in İstanbul, on September 2017

According to the statement made by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUİK), in October 2016, the most production and delivery of solid fuels was realized in Lignite. 4,753,561 tons of lignite was produced in October, while 4,678,599 tons of lignite was delivered.Again in October, 125,401 tons of hard coal and 369,821 tons of coke produc-tion 3,827,058 tons of hard coal and

The second of the International Ener-gy Raw Materials and Energy Summit (INERMA) will be held on 27-30 Septem-ber 2017 in cooperation with the Min-istry of Energy and Natural Resources,

445,928 tons of coke were delivered with the support of production, im-port and stocks.The rate of meeting the deliveries of solid fuels produced is the lowest with 3.3%, realized in coal. This ratio was calculated as 101.6% for lignite and 82.9% for coke. When the dis-tribution of solid fuels according to their delivery locations is examined, it

ITU Mining Facul-ty and ITU Energy Institute Support, Domestic Min-ing Development Foundation and Domino Fair Or-ganization.Energy is at the forefront of the world’s agenda,

the growing world population and the energy resources that are expected to be depleted in the near future are con-sidered a problem to be assessed on a global scale.

is seen that 40.6% of the coal deliver-ies are made to thermal power plants, 14.7% to coke plants and 7.2% to in-dustrial plants other than iron and steel, 83.6% of the lignite deliveries to thermal power plants done. 99.7% of the coke is referred to the iron and steel industry.

December 2016

Energy politics is not only the problem of countries themselves. The steps tak-en in this regard are affecting the world as a whole, and energy politics is being evaluated on a global scale. INERMA will bring together a large number of senior officials from Turkey and many other countries and authorities in the energy sector to create opportunities for future industry issues.You can visit the website www.inerma.com to learn about the conditions of participation to the Summit, to find out about the current layout plan and topics.

February 2017

20Spring 2017

Ariana Resources Becomes Sole Owner of Salınbaş Project

Target: 1 Million Square Meters Forest

Having a 51% share of the Salınbaş Project, Ariana Resources bought the remaining shares from Eldorado Gold and became the sole owner of the proj-ect. The project, which has been carried out in partnership with European Gold-field since 2008, has been carried out in partnership with Eldorado Subs, a subsidiary of Eldorado Gold since 2012.Ariana Resources said that from now on, Eldorado Gold will be paid net smelter revenue up to 2% from the pro-duction.Drilling Plans of Salınbaş Projectare SharedThe company, which published a new report on the work on Salınbaş Project, shared information about the targets to which the searches could focus. Ac-cording to the information provided, 37 target regions were identified in the Salınbaş Project, regarding the previously obtained data. It has been stated that some of the identified re-

gions have priority and additional work will be done in these regions. Within the scope of the project, it was stated that remarkable data were obtained in drilling works in Ardala region, and the most notable among these data were shared by the company as follows:• 2.44 g/t Au + 0.3% Cu content for 125 meters• 1.75 g/t Au + 6.13 g/t Ag content for 34.5 meters• 0.16 g/t Au + 0.3% Cu + 120 ppm Mo content for 164 metersGeochemical anomalies were encoun-tered in the surface samples taken from the project. These anomalies are usu-ally observed as gold, silver, zinc and molybdenum. In areas where anoma-lies are seen, the company will focus on areas that have not been drilled before. It was stated that the company plans to continue its exploration into the re-gion during 2017. In addition, it will be checked whether the mineralization

between Salınbaş-Ardala continues to the region of Hızırlıyayla.Resource Increase Studies inRabbit ProjectAriana Resources has published re-sults of resource estimation studies of Tavşan Project. According to the shared information, 16 target areas were iden-tified to increase the source of the proj-ect. Some of the results obtained from drilling studies are as follows:• 5.11 g / t Au + 6.83 g / t Ag content for 11 meters• 3,37 g / t Au + 3.67 g / t Ag content for 6 meters• 1.30 g / t Au + 4.32 g / t Ag content for 9 metersIt has been stated that in the project, 28,000 tons of gold has been stocked with an average grade of 1.41 g/t. In or-der to target future drillings in the field, surface sampling studies are planned.

December 2016

Natural Stone Sector Going StrongTurkish natural stone sector moves for-ward to resolve importers’ questions re-garding visiting Turkey after 15 July coup attempt and to increase communications with buyers. Aegean Mineral & Natural Stone Exporters’ Association (EMİB) will take steps to strengthen Turkey’s image through organizations in Italy and China. Planning a ‘Sectoral Trade Committee Organization’ between dates 27th of No-vember to 2nd of December 2016, EMİB will attend Xiamen Natural Stone and Technologies Fair by Turkish National

Participation Organization on 6-9th of March. During the organization, se-lected 100 importers among the buy-ers who visited Turkey’s booth will be invited to and hosted at İzmir during İzmir Marble, Natural Stone and Tech-nologies on 22-25th of March 2017. For the organization at Xiamen Natural Stone and Technologies Fair, EMİB will cooperate with İZFAŞ Fair Services, a company of İzmir Metropolitan Mu-nicipality, which organizes İzmir Marble Natural Stone and Technologies Fair.

EMİB is planning to participate in Xia-men Natural Stone and Technologies Fair with 64 firms in 3,061 square me-ters of Turkish pavilion in 2017. Chair-man of the board Mevlüt Kaya stated that they will announce invitations to İzmir Marble Fair at Xiamen Fair Ground advertisement boards, at the entrance of the Turkey’s booth and that the reg-istration tables will be placed at distant points to encourage the buyers to visit the entire booth of Turkey.

November 2016

Turkish Marble Mining Foundation and the İstanbul Mineral Exporters Associa-tion (İMİB) made a statement for the nat-ural stone sector to plant saplings in ex-pired mines after completing its function. The target of the Turkish Marble Mining Foundation and İMİB, which provided

saplings to the mine owners, planting the area of 1 million square meters. The foundation, which undertook to carry out the inspection for 3 years after planting the saplings, expressed his intention: “To bring nature back to nature.” Speaking to the marble sector within the scope of the

project, which aims to convert the mine-fields into reusable areas, Turkish Marble Mining Foundation Chairman Ersoy Erol called on all miners to help this project. Erol said, “Let’s be a sector integrated to the nature, not polluting it.”

March 2017

22Spring 2017

Yavuz Işık Became President of EuropeanReady-Mixed Concrete Association

Black Sea Copper&Gold will Explore 4 Centers at Alanköy

Sale Process Started for the Judicial Factor Appointed Companies

The Turkish Ready-Mixed Concrete As-sociation, which has been a full mem-ber of the European Ready-Mixed Concrete Association (ERMCO) since 1991 and has been in the Presidium since 2014, will now lead the Euro-pean ready-mixed concrete sector. THBB President Yavuz Işık was brought to ERMCO Presidency in the meeting of Board of Directors of 24th European Ready Mixed Concrete Association held in Germany on September 8, 2016, with the votes of 70 delegates and the Pre-sidium of France, Germany and Turkey. Yavuz Işık, thanking everyone who supported him about the subject, said: “We have been working for many years with our members in order to

Canadian Black Sea Copper&Gold Corp. have announced that they will ex-plore 4 different sources, which show anomalies in Au-Cu-Ag-Mo contents in soil samples, at Alanköy, located in northwestern Turkey. Following the geological, geophysical, and geochem-ical surveys to determine the point of exploration, exploration is expected to ensue in Spring 2017.The press release by the corporation states the scope of the planned explo-ration as:• Detailed geological mapping of the

With the Decree Law No. 687 issued in response to the decisions taken at the last Council of Ministers meeting, the Funds deemed eligible from the companies transferred to TMSF (Sav-ings Deposit Insurance Fund) and pre-viously approved by the TMSF will be sold or liquidated by the Fund. Deputy

make quality, accurate, environmentally sen-sitive and sustainable concrete production and usage necessary for the construction of safe and durable constructions in Turkey. We have achieved many successes on na-tional and international platforms, maintaining a stable and professional perspective. Today, Turkey is the leading European producer of ready mixed concrete and the third largest producer of ready mixed concrete in the world. We are leaving the meeting where we repre-sent our country and THBB, undertak-

property (1:5000 scale or better).• Determining the extent and grade of surface mineralization, and con-structing a higher resolution surface alteration map by infill rock sampling for geochemical and alteration (PIMA) analyses. • Ground geophysics (IP, resistivity and magnetics).The mining site on Biga Peninsula was firstly discovered and drilled by MTA via a Turkish-Japanese joint-venture. Between 1989 and 1991, 7 exploration trenches, which are a total of 1,245 m

Prime Minister Nurettin Canikli ex-plained that the number of companies transferred to TMSF and transferred to the TMSF reached 809 and their asset size was 38.3 billion TL.In addition to the companies such as Naksan Holding, Boydak Holding and Kaynak Holding, Koza Gold Operations

ing the presidency of ERMCO. This task, of course, brings new responsibilities. In the upcoming period we will establish new targets in terms of the develop-ment of the concrete industry both in Europe and in Turkey and we will carry out studies to advance our industry.”

November 2016

were excavated and 12 diamond drill holes, which are a total of 1,812 m were drilled for exploration. From 1992 and onwards, private companies have col-lected geological samples from the site and it has been geophysically mapped. In the past 15 years, many discover-ies have been made in the region by ongoing activities of several local and foreign-funded companies. Being a porphyry-epithermal gold-copper dis-trict, the region is predicted to have a great potential for new discoveries.

November 2016

of Koza İpek Holding and Koza Anadolu Metal Mining are among the companies to be sold or liquidated in a total of 21 companies. The related companies will be managed by the executives in this process. Revenues from sales or liquida-tion will be recorded in the Treasury.

February 2017

Ariana Resources Pour First Dore at KızıltepeAriana Resources announced that its partner, Zenit Mining Company casted the first dore of 5.25 kg of gold-silver mix-ture at Kiziltepe Mine. It was stated that the last legal investigations were com-pleted and necessary technical approvals were received for Kızıltepe Mine. Increase in production is being planned in the mine in the second quarter of 2017.Ariana Resources continues to share the results of the second phase of drill-ing work completed in 2016. The im-portant results obtained from Kızıltepe in the Red Rabbit Project are as follows:• From the shallow holes drilled in the extension of the 125-meter vein in the ‘Banu’ region:From the 61st meter, for 3 meters 3.36 g/t Au + 95.4 g/t AgFrom the 32nd meter, for 5 meters 1.88 g/t Au + 41.8 g/t AgFrom the 20th meter, for 4 meters 1.16 g/t Au + 24.9 g/t Ag

• The most striking result obtained from the ‘Banu’ region was 7.95 g/t Au + 170 g/t Ag zone for 1 meter from 32nd meter. This result was reported to be compatible with 4.75 meters long 4.26 g/t Au + 65.2 g/t Ag result, obtained from Fidan region. In addition, these results indicate that the potential of obtaining high-grade results from the south-east of the Kızıltepe vein system is also increasing.• In the ‘Arzu Far South’ region, a new vein extension, rich in silver content, was discovered. The drilling data ob-tained from the vein is as follows:From the 72nd meter, for 8 meters 0.82 g/t Au + 60.4 g/t AgFrom the 27th meter, for 2 meters 1.35 g/t Au + 64.6 g/t AgFrom the 29th meter for 3 meters 0.72 g/t Au + 41.2 g/t AgOn the other hand, the company an-nounced that the expected forest permit

for the Kızılçukur project, located 22 km northeast of Kızıltepe Mine, has been granted. It is estimated that the proj-ect has 308,000 tonnes of source with a grade of g/t Au+73.4 g/t Ag, From the project the company will start trial exca-vations and stock ore for future use.

March 2017

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Esan’s Sustainable Growth by Diversification

Esan was established in 1978 to pro-duce high quality raw materials for the ceramics sector. Today, almost 40 years later, it is one of Turkey’s foremost industrial mineral and metallic min-eral producers and the sole producer of primary magnesium in Turkey and Europe. In this role, Esan’s mission is to “Explore, process and add value to natural resources in a responsible man-ner towards people, the environment and the future of the world, and to offer these products globally”.

Sustaining Growth by DiversificationEsan currently operates 37 mines and 10 processing and storage plants spread over a wide geographical area in Turkey and abroad. As one of Turkey’s leading producers and exporters of feldspar, quartz, kaolin, ball clay, Esan owns the largest clay and feldspar reserves in the country and possesses grinding and flo-tation facilities which greatly outpace those of its national competitors.In addition to industrial minerals, me-tallic mines and magnesium metal

produced in its own facilities, Esan markets and sells various commercial products as well. As a supplier of high quality minerals and many industrial inputs and equipment, Esan markets more than 150 products to industries in Turkey and 47 other countries.Esan’s global presence has expanded through the years in line with its growing business volume and range. Esan oper-ates with its representative offices in Italy, Ukraine, Kosovo, China and Portugal as of early 2016. The company aims to main-tain its growth in industrial and metallic minerals in Turkey and abroad and con-tinuously seeks opportunities through in-vestments in extraction and processing.Growing Presence in MetalsEsan’s key business attributes-high qual-

ity, experience, knowhow and flexibility-have enabled it to diversify its fields of ac-tivity subsequent to 31 years of industrial mining history. With the opening of the Balya zinc and the lead plant in Balıkesir, Esan strategically diversified into the production of metallic minerals while maintaining growth in both the domes-tic and global industrial minerals market. Since the opening of the Balya plant in 2009, the production of metallic minerals has become a substantial component of Esan’s operations and made it the largest exporter of lead concentrates in Turkey. With 83 km of galleries and a depth of 815 meters, the Balya mine is the deepest lead and zinc mine in Turkey.

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Turkey and Europe’s Only Primary Magnesium Metal ProducerFollowing its successful entry in lead and zinc mining, Esan is expanding into new areas of mineral production, among them high technology products and metallurgy. To this end, it established Europe’s only primary magnesium plant in Eskişehir, Turkey. The plant, which uti-lizes the widely-used Pidgeon process, produces primary pure magnesium metal - a high value add product - from dolomite extracted from Esan’s own reserves. In the years ahead, Esan will endeavor to pursue its vision of adding value to natural resources through novel projects of this sort.

Sustainable MiningEsan’s approach to sustainability is based on four key focus areas: natural resources, people, the environment and the communities in which it op-erates. With a sustainability model consisting of OHS Management, En-vironmental Management and Social Impact Management practices, it con-tinues to operate in a manner which is productive, respectful, responsible, attentive, and sensitive to the said four

focus areas. A further essential com-ponent of Esan’s sustainability model is Smart Mining. By investing in smart mining technologies, Esan is able to develop and implement applications and systems which are integrated by business processes, and further to maximize productivity and safety; and thus, sustainability.

OHS ManagementEmployee safety, which has always been Esan’s top priority, is buttressed by a comprehensive occupation health and safety system which includes an OHS Council reporting directly to the general manager and fully-automated crisis man-agement system. In 2016, Esan also initi-ated a “Zero Harm” campaign aimed at proactively locating and eliminating risks through observation and training.

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Environmental ManagementMinimizing the impact of its operations on the environment is a further key component of Esan’s sustainability ap-proach. Esan continually strives to im-prove its environmental performance through energy and water utilization efficiency systems, dust management systems, waste management systems, and supplemental proactive practices. Additionally, Esan designs and imple-ments the restoration of abandoned sites and quarries. Over the past five years, it has planted close to 70 thou-sand trees which have been selected for their ecological suitability and potential economic value to local communities.Esan has been certified through ISO 9001 Quality Management, ISO 17025 Laboratory Accreditation, ISO 14001 Environmental Management and OH-SAS 18001 Occupational Health and Safety Management systems.

Reducing Carbon EmissionsThrough RenewablesA recently-added component of Esan’s efforts to reduce its environmental im-pact is renewable energy. In 2014, the company began operating the largest in-house solar energy project in the Ae-gean region, a 500 kW solar panel roof on its storage depot in Güllük which pro-duced 670 MWh of electricity in 2016. In 2015, it completed a second solar energy project at the site of its new magnesium plant with a fixed capac-ity of 2,350 kW, the largest solar energy auto-production facility in Turkey. In 2016, this plant generated 1,000 MWh of energy which, in combination with the Güllük project, prevented approxi-mately 940 thousand kg of carbon emissions in 2016.

Social Impact ManagementEsan is committed to ensuring that its operations contribute to the environ-mental, social and economic well-being of the communities in which it operates. To this end, Esan put in place local de-velopment programs which consists of purchasing, employment and sponsor-ship policies that place priority on local resources, increase the skills of the local work force. Additionally, it has corpo-rate social responsibility initiatives and focuses on gender equality, disadvan-taged groups (women and children), education, social development and welfare in the areas of operation.

Protect the ColorsEsan has also launched a social respon-sibility campaign called “Protect the Col-ors”, in which many of its employees vol-untarily participate in various projects. A number of the projects in question are; “Esan Benevolence Race” aimed at providing funding for prechosen foun-dation projects, “Would you be my play-mate?” made to introduce orphaned children to social life, and “Esan Chil-dren’s Festival” realized to make 2,000

children from different local communi-ties smile with a special holiday gift.

Smart MiningEsan Smart Mining Model is built to cre-ate a novel digital world with smart min-ing applications which will provide Esan with a competitive edge by maximizing OHS and productivity and the utiliza-tion of “big data”. This model enables Esan, which operates in a total of 10 lo-cations, to manage the entire processes with standard applications through the common infrastructure and ERP system. Digital transformation process have been accelerated by adapting new generation business applications and automation systems with smart mining applications and technologies. Today, thanks to its smart mining appli-cations, Esan has achieved to transform real-time production data into informa-tion, making all business processes much faster, flexible, planned and continuous. Esan’s smart mining applications have been awarded the “Best Innovation Project of the Year”, and “Best IoT Proj-ect of the Year” awards spanning 2 years from IDC. This is due to the inno-vative perspective and comprehensive content developed specifically for the mining industry.

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4Geochemical Analyses

Trace Element Analyses4

Precious Metal Analyses4

Ore Grade Analyses4

Import - Export Samples Analyses4

Metal Alloys Analyses4

XRF and XRD Combined Analyses4

Industrial Raw Materials4

Major - Minor Elements Analyses in the Coal Ash4

Rare Earth Elements4

Boron Analyses4

Mineralogical & Petrographical Analyses 4

Online Services4

Mineral Processing and R&DAnalysis Services

4Mineral characterization & process mineralogy

Comminution tests4

Jaw crushers

Hammer crushers

Roll crushers

Balı milis and rod milis

Bond bali and rod mili index

Classication4

Hydrocyclone

Spiral classier

Sieve classication (wet/dry)

Mineral processing4

Gravimetric separation

Jig

Shaking table

Heavy media separation

Wet & dry magnetic separation

Flotation

Grinding - liberation

Rougher - cleaner batch tests (0.2-5 l)

Locked cycle test

Sulphide ore otation

Oxide - transmission ore otation

Industrial raw material otation

Attrition scrubbing

Wemco, denver d-12 type

Hydrometalurgy

Acid leaching

Alkaline leaching

Separation with precipitation

Electrolysis

Dewatering and solid-liquid separation

Pressure ltration tests

Vacuum ltration tests

Thickener tests

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Harput Holding Company,New Investor in the Mining Sector

Harput Holding began its business in the textile industry in the 50’s, settled down in Bursa in the 80’s and initiated its industrialization era. Having been play-ing an important role in the production and export of the Turkish textile indus-try, Harput Holding aims to utilize this commercial and production experience in mining, chemistry, food, insurance, construction and energy business.Harput Holding has taken the principle of working with a team spirit and con-tributing to the national economy in a fair and participative management approach and without making conces-sions to honesty. In this scope, Harput Holding has entered the mining busi-ness in the recent years and is con-tinuing its projects with the company Harput Madencilik Sanayi ve Ticaret AŞ according to international standards.The company’s object is to present to the economy our natural sources in the most efficient way and to extend con-tinuously the Turkish mining industry in Turkey and abroad with state of the art technology, knowledge and experience.Upon the decision of investing in min-ing projects in Turkey and abroad: in 2012, Harput Holding has obtained the required licenses from the Ministry of en-ergy and Natural Sources-general Direc-

torate of Mining by both bids and assign-ment from other persons and has started mining operations with the name Harput Madencilik in 2013 with a focus on the provinces of Artvin and Ordu.Besides exploration operations with two ground and one underground drilling machine; incline shaft and gal-lery works are ongoing and eventually the company plans to establish mineral processing plants upon the identifica-tion of adequate reserves. Some infor-mation on the company’s projects are as following:Artvin Dereiçi ProjectThe project is located within the borders of the province of Artvin at a distance of 66 km to the city. The geology of the license area of 1,680 hectares consists of volcanic-sediment sequences. In the prospecting site, massive sulphide & porphyry type Cu-Pb-Zn and Au-Ag mineralization is observed widely.A total of 27.142 meters (at 121 dia-mond drill holes) of core drilling has been completed in the license area. In terms of geophysi-cal works, a total of 120,900 m IP/RES has been measured on 58 lines by the Pole-Dipole method whereas a total of 88,670 meters of

magnetic measures have been taken on 43 lines.Detailed works in order to increase the resources are ongoing in the license area.Ordu Camaş ProjectThe project is located within the bor-ders of the province of Ordu at a dis-tance of 31 km to the city. The geology of four adjacent license areas of total 4,718 hectares consists of volcanic-sed-iment sequences. In the prospecting site, multiple vein type sulphide Cu-Pb-Zn and Au-Ag mineralization is ob-served widely.A total of 12,343 meters (at 52 diamond drill holes) of core drilling has been com-pleted in the license area. In terms of geophysical works, a total of 24,850 me-ters IP/RES works have been conducted on 22 lines by Pole-Dipole method.Detailed works in order to increase the resources are ongoing in the license area.

www.harputholding.com.tr

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Seterm Teknik

Since 2004 we work as the solution part-ner with our customers providing heavy industrial pumps and custom-made valves. In 2016 we managed to get ISO 9001 and OHSAS 18001 qualifications, moved into our new building and es-tablished computer infrastructure for healthier customer relationship man-agement. By doing these investments, we aim to grow without comprimising from our quality. Our experienced ser-vice team provides start-up, mountage, maintenance and on-site supervision to our customers. We are the authorised distributor of 15 different companies from Germany and Switzerland. We are a leading company in pump and valve industry.

Companies We Work with in Mining Industry:• Feluwa: Double Hose-Diaphragm Piston Pumps• Düchting Pumpen: Metallic Centrifu-gal Pumps and Multistage Centrifugal Pumps with ATEX certificate for Under-ground Mining• Emile Egger: Vortex/Non-clogging Impeller Pumps and Sump Pumps• Richter Chemie: PFA Lined Centrifu-gal Pumps and PTFE covered inside Valves

Mining Pump Applications• Acid and Caustic Transfer Pump FeCl3 Pump• High Solid Handling Pump• Carbon Transfer Pumps• Filter Press Feed Pump• Cantilever Sump Pump• Non-clogged Centrifugal Type Trans-fer Pumps• Submersible Type Sludge Pumps• Underground dewatering pumps• SICCast® Material Centrifugal Pumps for Abrasive Fluids• Hose Type Piston Diaphragm Pumps for Waste Sludge

• High Pressure Slurry Pipeline Pumps• Tailing Pumps

Egger Turo Vortex Advantages:• Non-clogging• Only %15 solid contact• İmproved hydraulic efficiences• Low attraction of medium• Long-lasting investment• Simple design• Low running costs• Reliability• Standardised programme

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MB Crusher: Accounts of Crushing from the Heart of BAVARIA

We are in Mömlingen, a small town in the heart of Bavaria, where recently-finished work has brought new splen-dour to one of the German town’s main squares, in front of the Church of St. Martin.A location rich in charm and historical importance, and the subject of a global restoration project for the square in front of the church: a challenging proj-ect, which saw the use of the legend-ary crusher bucket by MB Crusher, the BF90.3.Fitted on a excavator which has 23.7-24.6 ton operating weight, the BF90.3 crusher bucket was used for the on-site crushing of cobblestones and blocks of limestone from the preceding exca-vation of the square. Recycled directly on site, these crushed aggregates were then used on the same work site to fill the sub-floor for the creation of the new square.There were two evident advantages for the company using the crusher bucket by MB Crusher: the elimination of costs for dump disposal and for the purchas-ing of new aggregate materials for fill-ing, and the consequential complete recycling of excavation materials. The use of the crusher bucket also al-lowed the construction company to

completely recover the materials pres-ent on-site, with an evident reduction in emissions and consumption and a general reduction in noise pollution (a fundamental aspect nowadays for the man-agement of urban work sites). There is of course also the simplicity of handling - the crusher bucket was transported installed directly on the excavator - an im-portant aspect for any company operating in the sector that has to take on operations in urban work sites.

An experience that was characterised by respect for the environment and the possibility of moving in limited spaces: two important and delicate themes that are often related to work in resi-dential areas.

Focus on the BF90.3 This was the first crusher bucket in the world ever to be created and patented. Designed to resist the most challenging conditions of any work site, it is suitable for excavators from 21 tons upwards. This year it was further optimised in order to allow an increase in productiv-ity, new options for the regulation of the dimension of materials in output, increased resistance and a reduction in maintenance times. (Connect to MB website and YouTube channel to relive the success of this Ba-varian experience together with us.)

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Making the most of history with the MB Crusher BF90.3 crusher bucket

turkish

Rev. 2017 / 01

Yukarıda verilen veriler bağlayıcı değildir, üretici herhangi bir zamanda ve hiçbir önceden bildirim zorunluluğu olmaksızın ürünlerinde değişiklşk yapma hakkına sahiptir.Ekskavatör ağırlıklara yaklaşık değerlerdir % 20 tolerans kabul edilmesi tavsiye edilir.

DAHA FAZLASINIKEŞFET

TEKNIK ÖZELLIKLER

YAĞ DEBISI BASINÇ KARŞI BASINÇ AĞIRLIK MAKSIMUM ÜRETIM

180 l/min. 220 bar 10 bar 3,50 Ton 42 m3/h

TAVSIYE EDILEN EKSKAVATÖR YÜKLEME KAPASITESI AĞIZ BOYUTU KOVA ÇIKIŞ BOYUTU BOYUTLARI

≥ 21 Ton 0,90 m3 L 910 H 540 mm ≥ 15 ≤ 140 mm 2185 x 1340 H 1390 mm

MB tarafından 2001 yılında patenti alınan ve üretilen BF90.3 dünyada ilk defa üretilen kırıcı kovadır.

Malzeme yükleme sırasında her türlü sürtünme kuvvetini yok etme ve her türlü şantiyede en zor şartlarda dayanıklı olması için projelendirilmiş BF90.3, çok yönlü ve kompaktır ve yıllar içinde de yenilenmiş güçlendirilmiştir.

İstenilen her türlü öğütme operasyonunda, en ağır şartlarda dahi, her türlü malzemede üretkenliğinden taviz vermez.

AksesuArlArTAVSIYE EDILEN YEDEK PARÇA KITISABİT BRAKET DİŞİ HIZLI BRAKET DEMIR AYRIŞTIRIcISAAT ÖLÇÜcÜTOZ INDIRgEME KITI24 AY gARANTI

uygulAmA AlAnlArıKENTSEL ŞANTİYE ALANLARIYOL YAPIM VE TADILAT IŞLERIYIKIMKAZIOcAKLAR TAŞ VE MADEN OcAKLARIDOKUMHANEKAPALI ALAN

BF 90.3 s4

OIL FLOW PRESSURE COUNTER PRESSURE WEIGHT MAXIMUM PRODUCTION

180 l/min. 220 bar 10 bar 3,50 Ton 42 m3/h

RECOMMENDED EXCAVATOR LOAD CAPACITY OPENING DIMENSIONS OUTPUT SETTING DIMENSIONS

≥ 21 Ton 0,90 m3 L 910 H 540 mm ≥ 15 ≤ 140 mm 2185 x 1340 H 1390 mm

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ARDEF and RPMGLOBAL

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ARDEF Mining Machinery Energy Trade Co. has been serving in mining sector with its more than 20 years of experi-ence and continuing its activities speed-ily in collaboration with RPM Global since August 2015 based on a solution partnership.ARDEF and RPM Global have been pro-viding information on the solutions used by the world’s largest mining companies for many years to contribute to this pro-cess, as the mining industry is rapidly changing its crust in our country. Until today, mining software programs have addressed mine resource and operable reserve calculations, while efficiency and performance control have been overlooked. The functioning of such programs is very important so that mea-surable performances can shed light on the future of mining operations rather than being stored in files as data in the mining operation process. It is possible to evaluate all the scenarios of the min-ing operation in a short time with the help of these software.

RPMGlobal (RPM) Leaders inthe Digital Transformation ofMiningRPM are leaders in Mining Enterprise Technology innovation and offer solu-tions across all commodities and func-tions of the mining value chain. Our trusted reputation for superior technol-ogy solutions in mining is stems from our track record for innovation backed by our 45+ years of experience. RPM’s Mining solutions provide our min-ing customers the opportunity to co-ordinate productivity with confidence around their mine planning, simulation, financial, maintenance and execution systems. It is not only RPM’s Enterprise Mining solutions that achieves a step change in performance for our customers. RPM’s Enterprise Integration layer, Enterprise Planning Framework (EPF), brings a new level of collaboration to mining and mining systems. RPM’s EPF ensures con-sistency and transparency across entire mining organisations and is the link be-

tween ‘above the line’; ERP systems and ‘below the line’ operational technology solutions. Together with our industry partners, Schneider Electric, SAP, and Modular Mining Systems RPM is already delivering the Digital Mine. RPM’s solutions target the challenges experienced in the Turkey mining land-scape to deliver a step change in perfor-mance, specifically in the areas of:

Scheduling RPM’s Scheduling Solutions allow mine planners to be engineers rather than manage complex spreadsheets and data acquisition. Offering a user interface that is process-driven, RPM’s Solutions are intuitive, fast to learn and simple to use. With in-built mining logic, specific to each commodity, mine planners can react to market changes quickly and easily whilst developing multiple mine plans to suit varied operating condi-tions. RPM’s Open Cut Coal Scheduling Solution (OCCS), presents a new ap-proach to coal scheduling with a fully-integrated design component allowing for seam aggregation, loss and dilution, and margin ranking. As an industry-first, OCCS also features parametric design,

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a mine design concept that has funda-mentally revolutionised the way open cut coal mines are scheduled around the world.

Open Pit Met-als XPAC Solution (OPMS) is a com-prehensive, end-to-end mine schedul-

ing solution that delivers an evolution in open pit scheduling. For long term scheduling, large regular blocks make it fast and efficient. For budget and shorter term schedules, more flexibil-ity is required and the use of irregular excavation shapes is more common. To ensure the schedule reflects how the deposit will be practically mined, OPMS supports any combination of regular and irregular blocks with all the same benefits of the underlying XPAC sched-uling engine. A change to one aspect of the plan changes all the related param-eters automatically. We offer solutions for long/medium and short term plan-ning across all commodities and min-ing methods.

Simulation HAULSIM is RPM’s renowned simula-

tion solution. HAULSIM has been de-signed by mining engineers, for mining engineers, to specifically target mine haulage challenges. Featuring state-of-the-art discrete event simulation ca-

pabilities, HAULSIM unlocks value from mining operations around the world and is the mining industry’s preferred decision support tool. HAULSIM helps our customers make decisions with complete confidence around common mining challenges including:• How to decide whether a one-lane haul road should be two lanes wide• Determine the optimal queue length at the crusher• Improve productivity by adding a passing bay to my underground haul-age system• Validate a schedule with confidence knowing potential congestion points at key locations have been considered

• Know whether to load trucks directly or tip to an ore pass• Do I need more trucks or less?

Financial Management XERAS Enterprise is the mining indus-

try’s go-to financial solution, bringing about superior financial management in mining. Given the remote location of many mine sites globally, mobile acces-sibility is one of the innovative features XERAS Enterprise offers via its Analytics app. Xeras Analytics offers live sensitivity analysis and model version comparison-giving our customers access to a single source of truth, all from the palm of their hand. Users of XERAS Enterprise can carry out in-depth analysis of financial figures in real time, ensuring an in-depth understanding of the financial health of your mining operation with the click of a button. Driven by ease of use, accuracy and speed, XERAS Enterprise is the result of technology innovation which delivers results for our customers that are simply not possible using spreadsheets. RPM is the market leader in enterprise solutions for mine planning, simula-tion, financial, maintenance and ex-ecution systems. To learn more about how our solutions can increase pro-ductivity, increase safety and deliver shareholder value, contact RPMGlobal or ARDEF today: www.rpmglobal.com or www.ardef.com

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Success Begins with Safety

We, as Tüprag AŞ, are fully aware of our responsibilities respecting the protec-tion of health, safety, peace and wel-fare of everyone working, directly or indirectly, for our company as well as of any other persons who may be affect-ed from our activities. Accordingly, we have been displaying utmost sensitivity in that regard. At present, Tüprag has a total workforce of nearly 2,000 employees serving at the two mines we have been operating in Uşak and İzmir. Of these 2,000 em-ployees, 65% have been recruited from among local citizens residing in close vicinity of the mines concerned. This is a source of happiness and pride on the part of our company. Within this framework, we have been providing relevant training to each and every employee of Tüprag regardless of his/her position in the company, with a view to ensuring compliance with laws,

regulations and other legislations in-volving “occupational health and safe-ty” as well as adherence to pertinent operating procedures and standards, thereby emphasizing that OHS prac-tices stand out as a concept emerging from the life itself rather than just rep-resenting a workplace obligation. Given the enormous dimensions of vehicles, machinery and equipment

being used as well as the compelling physical conditions prevailing in both of our mines, i.e. Uşak Kışladağ Gold Mine (which we have been operat-ing as an open-pit mine) and İzmir Efemçukuru Gold Mine (where we have been employing underground min-ing methods), it is obvious that even some slight negligence or omission to take place at these mine sites

Tüprag Chairman, Board of Directors Mehmet Yılmaz

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might result in catastrophic damage. This is an undeniable fact which our country has sadly experienced in sev-eral other mines. We, as Tüprag AŞ, have been providing comprehensive vocational training to each and every employee of our com-pany from the very first day of his/her recruitment. In addition to vocational training, we have been continuously extending OHS-related training cover-ing a diverse set of topics such as risk awareness, safety observations and surveillance, case studies, safe driving techniques, fire and rescue, health unit training, etc., thereby contributing to personal or individual development of our workers and other personnel. For in-stance, every employee working at our Kışladağ Gold Mine has been receiving approximately 27 hours of OHS train-ing per year. This figure is 41 hours on the average in the case of Efemçukuru Gold Mine. In the sense of mining and operation activities, total training hours per employee represent a considerably higher number as compared to that of our peer firms, which clearly manifests Tüprag’s esteeming its personnel. Apart from our specially developed OHS Policies which we have been implement-ing at each and every establishment of Tüprag, we have been officially awarded ‘OHSAS 18001: 2007’ certificates that qualify as a mark of our successful imple-mentation of the “Occupational Health and Safety Management System” at the afore-mentioned two mines.

In the sense of Health and Safety at Work, mining industry involves higher risks in comparison with other sec-tors. Therefore, in the case of mining industry, just satisfying the require-ments of pertinent legislations would not suffice. In addition to general and common risks that any business of any given industry involve, mining estab-lishments usually involve some extra

risks because of various factors such as the type of operation, geographi-cal location and conditions, diversity and size of equipment used, number of employees, etc. For this very reason, every mining company or every mine site has to develop special, unique or exclusive safety measures and OHS practices. We have been serving in the mining industry for longer than 30 years, i.e. since 1986. The only thing that has re-mained unchanged during this time period of three decades is our firm be-lief in and strong commitment to our motto “FIRST COME THE HUMAN BEING AND THE ENVIRONMENT, ONLY THEN COMES MINING”. In this context, we are committed to make constant prog-ress in the field of Occupational Health and Safety with a view to providing a workplace where our employees, sub-contractors, suppliers and visitors feel themselves safe, secure and healthy at all times and where no accidents or in-juries are experienced.

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7. Madencilik, Doğal Kaynaklar ve Teknolojileri Fuarı

7Th Mining, Natural Resources And Tecnologies Fair

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Not All First Aid is the SameOn a sunny afternoon in an early sum-mer day, a young geologist is getting ready to pack the final samples he had been collecting in the remote area to avoid famous afternoon showers. Nearing the last days of his field as-signment as part of the exploration team, he is anxious about going back home to catch up with his loved ones. Sending his partner down the trail to make the pick-up truck ready, he has less than two kilometers of narrow, loose trail he needs to hike down. As the clouds form over his head, he hasti-ly gears up. Light showers already start washing the trail ahead. Worried about getting wet, he picks up the pace, only to realize the loose and wet rock he steps on was going to cause him a big trouble. Unable to maintain his bal-ance because of his load, he tumbles down the trail. Coming to a stop, the only thing he could feel is the intense pain in his right ankle. Looking down there, he sees a grossly deformed lower leg with fresh blood staining his pants. He needs his partner more than anything to end this nightmare.An incident such as this could become real during everyday activity of a field geologist. While seen as an emergency health problem, this situation could quickly turn into a quest for survival.

A sprained ankle, broken bone or a bleeding wound; they all require ba-sic first aid measures to be performed to prevent the situation from getting worse, easing pain and suffering, and potentially saving someone’s life. While first aid practices for mine sites follow very well defined and estab-lished standards, one lacks such pre-cise conditions in the field. As explo-ration considered an essential part of mining, it requires different approach to the similar problems due to its unique environments where this ac-

tivity takes place. Unlike mines where emergency response plans are estab-lished and skilled first aiders, even healthcare professionals are nearby and plentiful, remote areas offer none of those comfort measures. Wilderness or remote area first aid in-cludes different sets of skills and ap-proach compared to standard first aid practices. While the ultimate goal is always the same, three unique condi-tions separate remote area first aid from standard first aid:TimeUnlike standard first aid procedures where help is minutes or rarely hours away, one may not get any additional help for hours, sometimes even days in remote areas. In fact, remote area first aid is defined as practice of first aid when definitive medical care is more than one hour away. This extension in response time requires changes in prior-ities and practices. It is not simply a “stop the bleeding and call an ambulance” situation. Extended care of the injured is now the goal for the first aid provider. A simple broken bone can cause differ-ent challenges when the injured person cannot be taken to a hospital for 20 hours. Should you allow him to eat or drink while waiting for evacuation?

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ResourcesGenerally speaking, first aid is per-formed with whatever is available nearby. However, it is always possible to get fresh stock of supplies in an ur-ban environment where help is nearby. On the other hand, we travel with very little first aid supply in the wilderness. And one severe injury can deplete these valuable resources fairly quickly with no help in sight. This requires improvisation skills to be learned by remote area first aid practitioners. It is not only the first aid supplies, but also the human resources are limited in re-mote areas. One usually have a couple

of travel companion with him, and this small group of people may not even be able to carry the injured down the trail for two kilometers.EnvironmentPaved roads and easy access to a hos-pital will not be an option in remote ar-eas. There are wet trails, dense bushes, steep hills, running rivers between the patient and the hospital. You should consider yourself lucky if you hit a dirt road. Further, consider environmental elements: rain, snow, fog, cold and hot and add darkness to all those. Simple medical problems can turn into com-plex situations when exposed to these

environmental extremes. One needs to know how to deal with mother earth while caring for the injured. While it can be considered as an ex-treme example, imagine for a second the Copiapó mining accident took place at a gold-copper mine in Chile in 2010. Thirty three men were trapped 700 meters below the ground for a re-cord 69 days and survived the ordeal. The definitive medical care was not anywhere near, they had very limited resources and they had to deal with the extreme environmental conditions. Not only the physical contraints were the challenge, but they also had to deal with emotional and psychological stress, which is another important part of first aid. So as you can see, unique problems require unique approaches to fix. We will be covering wilderness and remote area first aid topics in coming issues, hoping to provide readers with more insight in this specific area of medicine and increase awareness among mining and exploration professionals.Stay safe.

AUTOBIOGRAPHYGürkan ÖZEL, MSc, FP-C Gürkan Özel is a flight paramedic, educator, writer, speaker and re-searcher in paramedicine, wilder-ness medicine, rescue and survival topics. He has been involved in wilderness medicine and outdoor rescue in his days at METU back in the early 90’s. He was trained as a paramedic, firefighter and search & rescue technician in the US. He has taught wilderness medicine, rescue and survival courses internation-ally for over 20 years. He is a profes-sional consultant for medical risk assessment, emergency response planning and instructor/coordina-tor for several international orga-nizations that teaches internation-ally recognized first aid, trauma and rescue classes. He can be reached at rescuemedic@gmail.com.

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Occupational Health & Safety Precautions Being Insured in Mining Explorations

Mining consists of many different phas-es ranging from exploration to pro-duction. These phases have different security risks if they are evaluated one by one. Upgrading the OHS culture and minimizing the probable risk can be achieved through a precise work. An exploration team at the beginning of the road is the basis of the min-ing operations and they run through large facilities with small clues. The predictions and evaluations of geolo-gists can minimize the probable risks and troubles through the team work during their surveys in nature. OHS training and professional proficiency

became more important nowadays and carry the occupational health and safety culture to the upper levels in our country where this culture has been advancing slowly in previous decades. In this context, planned trainings help to determine the precautions against the occupational accident and to avoid risky situations that employees may en-counter.Generally, the occupational safety works in geologic surveys can be clas-sified in two categories as prospecting and drilling operations. This classifica-tion can be further elaborated accord-ing to the projects.Exploration and Prospection PhasesThe team in the exploration project should also be trained about the diffi-cult conditions in the field in addition to the professional information. First of all, the training must contain first aid training. First aid training can

be received from official institutions such as Kızılay (Red Crescent) as well as through private companies accredited by government agencies.Secondly, it is necessary to have de-tailed information about the vehicles that are used in the field. In general the four wheel drive (4WD) vehicles such as a pick up are used for challenging conditions in the field. The authority of the company that rent or sell the 4WD vehicle should give a detailed informa-tion. If this is not possible, the informa-tion can also be obtained from special service companies. After having detailed information of the vehicle, it is necessary to take train-ings about the difficult field conditions that will be encountered with these vehicles. The training is called Off-Road Training. This training can also be given by accredited organizations. The cer-tificate obtained after the training will have international validity.After the field transport training is over, field works related trainings should start. Employee must be trained about the us-

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CONTACTS

Serdar Onur Avcı

Exploration Manager/B Class Health&Safety Specialist

Serdaroa@demirexport.com

Gökhan Kanaat

Senior Geologist/B Class Health&Safety Specialist

gokhank@demirexport.com

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age of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and the works to be done in the field. Firtst the employee must check whether the PPE is fully loaded. Reflec-tive safety vests providing visibility in the field, ankle supported /steel toe field boots to prevent slipping and buckling while walking and safety glasses to pro-tect against splashing particles while taking rock-soil-stream samples are ab-solutely very necessary equipments.Moreover, one should also have de-tailed knowledge about the old work-ings in the area. It is important to have detailed information about the places where the old production cavities and galleries are located. In case of working in an old gallery, measurements must be made with gas measuring devices and the stability of the fortifications must be controlled by the specialist The Phase of Exploration Drilling. There are many risks for each phase of drilling operations and transportations. To begin with, the occupational secu-rity specialist appointed by the compa-nies should make a preliminary study about the project site and prepare the risk analysis. Similarly, the first training that should be given in the drilling phase is also first aid training. Then, safety measure-ments must be taken on the study area after the first aid training is given to the employee. Among these measure-ments, warning plates must be placed at the appropriate places where the border of the working area is deter-

mined and the warning tape strips are pulled out, and the entrance of unau-thorized personnel to the study area should be prevented. Detailed information about the ma-chines and equipment to be used by the personnel in the study area must also be given. Ensure that Personal Pro-tective Equipment to be given is used and monitored (helmet, steel-nosed boots, goggles, headset, etc.).Another issue that needs to be taken care of is environmental cleanness. Do-mestic and industrial wastes must be kept separately. Environmental clean-ness reduce the risks such as falls and injuries resulting of slippery grounds that may occur with domestic and in-dustrial wastes like oil anddiesel.Another benefit of environmental clean-

up is to get rid of fire risk. If the study area is a place like a forest, materials that may cause fire must be under control. A sufficient number of personnel should be kept during the drilling oper-ations and a shift plan should be estab-lished in accordance with the working hours stated in the law. It should also be ensured that adequate training is given to the use, and transportation of the drilling machines and consumable material.In case of working in shift, teams must inform each other. In addition, the work teams can arrange weekly occupational safety meetings to determine probable risk and take necessary precautions.Do not forget that Every Accident Can Be Avoided!

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A General Approach to the Concept of Safe-Driving

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Yener Gülünay

Advanced Driving Specialist

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Safe-driving is the self-protection of a driver with a proactive point of view against all the negative or even dan-gerous circumstances that she/he may encounter while driving in traffic. There are many things to say about the regulations for drivers, insufficient driving/traffic trainings and lack of in-spections on drivers/vehicles in Turkey. If a healthy traffic life is desired in our country, the authorities must urgently reach drivers especially to those who have not been trained in basics of safe-driving and do not understand the log-ic of this concept.Drivers who are trained in safe-driving first learn to use their vehicles correctly. They understand that the natural forces that act on their vehicles are stronger than their controls on the vehicles. This teaches them that they should not have much confidence in their control over their vehicles. In these trainings, the drivers experience scenarios close

to real driving con-ditions repeatedly in traffic-free and artificially slippery courses among skittles. Thus, they learn more about themselves and their vehicles and realize their own the vehicles’ limits. These drivers gain the ability and awareness in mat-ters like whence the threat is clos-ing and driving without risks. In addition to these, they also realize that respect and tolerance in traffic are com-pulsory issues and that they cannot solve any conflict by temper.The benefits of these trainings are ac-knowledged all over the world. In Tur-key, which is preparing to be a part of the EU, it is now time for the state and non-governmental organizations to pioneer conscious driving education.Trained drivers involve rather less in the accident. Thus, both vehicle damage costs as well as health expenditures

and loss of work power are greatly re-duced. Due to low number of accidents, both insurance costs and so the drivers’ expenses reduce. Likewise, because the probable costs of damages are usually more expensive than insurance profits, low number of accidents is beneficial to insurance companies, as well.In Turkey, almost 30 thousand of peo-ple lost their lives because of terrorism in the last 20 years, while almost 300 thousand of people lost their lives in traffic accidents during the same peri-od. A simple comparison shows us that this is one most important problems that our country has suffered in the last decades but no actions have been tak-en in terms of education by the State.Each year almost 400 thousand new drivers are added to traffic in Turkey. It is obvious for us that at least half of these inexperienced drivers could not receive a driving license if a level deter-mination test was applied to them by a qualified staff of educators.There are many driving courses in our country that are serious in their edu-cations. Unfortunately, the number of those which do not approach the is-sue seriously is quite high as well. On

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the other hand, during the tests of is-suing driving licenses, inadequate MEB inspectors try to test the driver candi-dates in short time periods and short distances during the licensing examina-tions. Issues like the are also among the factors that increase the risks in traffic.Most of our drivers do not know how to stop their vehicles in the shortest distances and safely. They keep the steering wheel wrong and even turn it wrong. They’re sitting on the seat in a wrong position. But the worst is that they not aware of these mistakes. Un-fortunately, because of the poor train-ing which had to but did not start from childhood, they do not have an ad-equate basic automobile knowledge.In the couple of minutes of vital impor-tance before an accident, most drivers do not know what to do. They do not know their vehicles well. Their sitting and steering positions are incorrect. However, they could be able to control their vehicles correctly in a short time and will not interfere in any accident,

if they were aware of basic concepts of safe-driving.Do you think our drivers are so talent-ed? Do you think that the new drivers are trained enough? Could you say that the driving courses provide the best trainings? Are the roads safe and signs/signals useful enough? Do you think

there are no dangers in our highways? Do you know that Turkey is the leading country in traffic accidents in Europe? The answers to all these questions re-veal clearly why the traffic in our coun-try is so dangerous.We wish you all a safe journey!

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Why are the Occupational Accidents not Decreasing?

CONTACTS

Gözde Metin MSc.

OHS Specialist Class-B

Fire Trainer

gzde_metin@hotmail.com

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The need for Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) in our country started with coal mining in late 19th Century. The regulations of Dilaver Paşa (Min-ister of Mines and Governor of Ereğli) which were published in 1865 and the Maadin Nizamnamesi (Mining Regula-tions) accepted in 1869, constituted the first legal regulations during the Otto-man Empire Era. In 1921 by the young Turkish Grand National Assembly, the Havza-i Fahmiyye (Coal Basin) Working Law was enacted to protect the rights of mining workers. This was one of the first In 1930, the Umumi Hıfzıssıhha (Public Health) Law law was enacted and with 180th article of this law, to the owners of the workplaces employing at least fifty workers the obligation to employ physicians and ensure them to treat patients, was introduced.Improvements related to occupational safety continued with labor law #3008 enacted in 1936. Later, labor laws #931 and #1475 were issued. With the labor law #4857 accepted on March the 6th 2003, a new vision was introduced to the concept of occupational safety. Law #6331, which regulates occupational ‘health’ and safety for the first time in Turkey, was published in the Official Gazette on June the 30th 2012. The data related to the occupational ac-cidents encountered during the period from the enforcement of Law #6331 until 2017 are given in the table below.

Despite the OHS Law published in 2012, why isn’t there a decline in the number of occupational accidents and why are the fatal cases increasing? To ensure OHS, the government, employ-ers and employees should fulfill their duties together. But unfortunately, they do not.One of the main duties of the State is to control the implementations of OHS precautions. Inspections are also provided to check the workplaces. Unfortunately, there are deficiencies in this issue. In 2016, 14,287 work-place inspections were carried out on issues such as occupational acci-

dents, occupational diseases, safety reports, on-demand investigations, screening inspections, continuation or removal of labor ceases. According to the hazard classes in Turkey, the number of low dangerous workplaces is 1,020,771, the number of danger-ous workplaces is 386,844. and the number of high dangerous workplac-es is 282,093. As one can understand from these numbers, the inspections are insufficient.Financial sanctions are imposed to the companies in which improprieties are detected after the inspections. In most cases, the cost of the precaution that

YearTotal Number of

Days thatAccrued Bonus

Total Number of Employees

TemporaryIncapacity

Duration (Days)

Total Number of Occupational

AccidentsNumber of Fatal

Cases

2012 3,855,795,100 23,937,000 1,647,127 74,871 744

2013 4,069,831,784 24,601,000 2,357,505 191,389 1,360

2014 4,248,428,182 25,933,000 2,065,962 221,366 1,626

2015 4,462,091,44 25,454,000 2,992,070 241,547 1,252

2016 - 27,205,000 - - 1,970

the employer will pay is higher than the cost of the penalty to be applied. This reduces the effect of the sanctions.One of the factors affecting the awareness of occupational safety consciousness is the postponed legal obligation. For example; The obliga-tion to employ an OHS specialist and a workplace physician in the public institutions and in workplaces in less dangerous class with number of em-ployees below fifty, that was going to start on July the 1st 2016 has been postponed to July the 1st 2017. This and similar examples of delays make it difficult to settle OHS culture and have a negative impact on public con-sciousness about OHS concept.With the Labor Law #6331, some ob-ligations have been introduced to the employers. The current law dictates without any exception, that any em-ployer is obliged to ensure the OHS of the employee, but employers are still avoiding the necessary investments. During annual budget planning, the

lack of OHS planning causes the later related expenditures to appear as extra costs. The mentality of “preven-tion is cheaper than paying” is not yet adopted in terms of employers in our country.One of the most important innova-tions of OHS Law has been to ensure the participation of employees in OHS issues. OHS studies are being more productive as OHS specialists become a part of the processes. If 88% of oc-cupational accidents are thought to be caused by insecure behaviors of the employees, there is a great deal of responsibility for them, too in labor safety. The settled belief of ‘nothing can happen to me’ amongst the em-ployees, increases the insecure behav-iors. We can overcome this belief only by education. No doubt that employ-ee trainings are very important but OHS trainings should be given even at childhood and children must grow with this culture. Otherwise, the edu-cation given during adulthood will be

insufficient. Usually employees resist to new information because of their very own and unquestioned experi-ences. OHS training usually remains only as paperwork in most workplaces and does not reach its goal. Education, which is the most important chain of OHS, is not paid enough attention. The reason for a large majority of accidents is based on lack of OHS education.With the law on OHS, all workplaces gradually became obliged to employ OHS specialists and workplace physi-cians. However, for these OHS special-ists are employers of the companies rather than of the State, they cannot perform their duties as required. Any dependent OHS specialist has the potential to cause a mistake in the OHS processes. On OHS related nega-tive circumstances in companies, the insufficient authorities of OHS spe-cialists over employers remains as a dilemma. All these factors mentioned prevent the improvement of OHS in Turkey.

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OHS in Drilling OperationsCONTACTS

Sarp Ayken

Drilling Manager/Ortadoğu Sondaj

sarp.ayken@ortadogusondaj.com

Arda Ayhan

Editor /Mining Turkey Magazine

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OverviewOccupational Health and Safety (OHS) is one of the main issues of working life. It is now regarded as a scientific discipline. And as in other branches of science, depending on the changes in production processes and society life, it is constantly evolving.Within the scope of “Regulation on Oc-cupational Health and Safety in Mining Workplaces” published on 19.09.2013, the minimum requirements are deter-mined for the protection of the health and safety of the workers in drilling op-erations and surface or underground mining operations in Turkey. According to this regulation, the following articles have become compulsory.• To ensure the health and safety of employees,• To ensure the appropriateness of the workplace in terms of health and safety,• To explain the work to the employees with the help of instructions,• To take all the precautions about first aid and emergency situations and to carry out exercises,• To provide documentation on health and safety,• To control the working areas,• Providing training and informing the employees,• Subjecting employees to periodic health examinations when starting and during the work.Personal Protective Equipment: The personal protective equipment listed below must be used during all drilling operations (transport, assembly, disas-sembly).

Helmet, Headset, Glasses, Dust mask, Gloves, Work Shoes/Boots, Work Clothes, Safety Belt, Reflective Vest.OHS in Drilling Operations: OHS con-cept must cover all the following steps of a standard drilling operation:• Opening of the drilling area,• Transportation and installation of machinery and equipment to the area,• Drilling the hole,• Removal and transportation of the machinery and equipment,• Closing the drilling area.

A.Issues to Consider WhenChoosing the Drilling Location1. Landslide and Flood Risks: The risks of natural disasters such as landslides or floods in the drilling site should be analyzed before the installation of the machinery and the necessary precau-tions should be discussed.2. High Voltage Lines: If a high voltage line is passing around the drilling loca-tion, such a location should be chosen that the distance between the tower of the drilling machine is at least 35 meters.

3. Underground Lines: It should be checked whether there are installations such as electricity, water, natural gas or sewerage under the locations where drilling is planned. If the presence of such installations is known or suspect-ed, the location of the drilling location should be changed.4. Noise Risk: When choosing the drill-ing location, the proximity to the settle-ment area should be taken into con-sideration and precautions should be taken to prevent noise disturbance if necessary. For example: noise curtains or exhaust silencers.

B. Issues to Consider WhenPreparing the Drilling Location1. Excavation: During the preparation of the drilling location, the excavated soil should be preserved in the drilling location and it should be put back to its former location after the drilling site has been abandoned.

2. Study Area: The zone, defined as the site of study in the drilling loca-tion, must be free from pits, channels or large gravels against the danger of stapling and falling.

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C. Machine and EquipmentTransportationFollowing rules must be obeyed during the transportation phase:• Transportation routes must be planned and power, telephone, etc. lines should be checked in advance. • If necessary, the tree branches on the path of the machine should be trimmed.• The maximum slope that the drilling machine will climb must be 30 degrees.• The drilling machine must always be moved by the driller. During the move-ment of the machine, there must be a watcher in the front.• Hanging equipment like rope, hose, etc. must be connected to the drilling machine with plastic clamps or ropes.• If road conditions are extremely icy or muddy, transportation should not be forced before the road is repaired.• The maximum loading capacity of vehicles used in transportation must not be exceeded.

D. Installation of Machineryand Equipment1. Oil and Diesel Stack: The oil and diesel fuel used in the drilling must be stocked in a closed area, if possible. The stock area must be covered with an impermeable layer and the barrels of oil tins must be enclosed in sealed pans. Near the stock area, at an accessible position there should be an ‘oil leak intervention set’.2. Drilling Mud Additives Stock: If pos-sible, the additives to be stocked in the drilling site should be stocked in a closed area or covered to avoid get-ting wet. Especially additives such as bentonite should be isolated also from ground moisture.3. Drilling Fluid Control: The metered tanks in the drilling area must be in the pits. All pits or pools in the drilling area must be under-covered with imperme-able layers (tarpaulins, nylon...etc.). The recirculation channels of the drill hole must be of sufficient size to prevent the overflow of the drilling fluid and must have sufficient inclination to provide a smooth flow. If necessary, the circula-tion channels should be covered with cement and the become impermeable.

4. Warning Signs and Safety Strips: The environment of the drilling site should be surrounded by a safety strip or fence. Work safety warning plates should be placed on all entry points of and around all the pits in the site and they should be seen easily. Warning signs should be placed beside the die-sel and oil stock area and other impor-tant items such as first aid kit, fire extin-guisher tubing can be easily found.

5. Walking Routes: All channels, tanks and pits in the drilling area must be covered with walking grids.6. Waste Management: Garbage gener-ated during drilling activities must be collected in at least two categories: Do-mestic waste and waste oils. Containers should be placed on the drilling site where these wastes can be collected separately and these containers should be in different colors and labels. Waste oils generated during maintenance or repair must be collected in at least two categories: Hydraulic waste oils and Gearbox/Engine/Differential waste oils. Containers where these waste oils can be collected separately must be placed and labeled on the drilling site.

7. Cement Base and Stabilizing the Drilling Machine: Especially in deep and inclined wells, the drilling machine

should be stabilized with 25-30 cm thick cement from the feet or the tower. In ad-dition, cement can be poured into the collar of the hole with dimensions such as 1x1x 0.5m to prevent expansion. 8. Raising the Tower: Before the tow-er starts to be raised, wedges should be placed under the feet of the drill-ing machine and the machine should be balanced. Also, the tower must be checked to ensure that all ropes have been passed over the pulleys, the safe-ty rope is attached and the pulley lubri-cation hoses are connected.

Once the tower is raised, some person-nel must observe the ropes and hoses from a remote location. If there is equip-ment that is stretching and is about to break, the driller should be warned. Af-ter all the controls are finished the pillars should be connected immediately.9. Prevention of Oil and Diesel Leaks: Impermeable materials (tarpaulins, nylon...etc.) must be laid beneath all machines (drilling machines, pumps, generators...etc.) operating in the field to prevent oil or diesel leaks to the drill-ing site. The ‘oil leak intervention set’ against these types of accidents must be available in the drilling field.10. Lighting: Lightning of the drilling area for the night shift can be done with electricity taken from the machine’s battery (12V or 24V). This method pro-vides a safer working environment than lighting using the projector and gener-ator (220 V).Things to consider when spot lights are placed are: • The spot lights should enlighten the working environment and especially the pit.• The spot lights must be positioned above eye level.• Care must be taken that the spot lights do not create blind areas.

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• The electrical cables must be embed-ded or air-tight to prevent interference.11. Arrangement / Order: The location of all equipment to be used in drilling operation must be decided in advance. These places for this equipment should be prepared. Important equipment such as a fire tubes, first aid kits, oil spill response kits should be placed in easily accessible and easily visible lo-cations. The hose and electrical cables should be embedded as far as possible or suspended in the air to eliminate the risk of stumbling. Three pieces of wedges should be placed beneath the stacks of all drill rods and casings and each wedge should be nailed with anti-slip wedges. The study area should be cleaned regularly from pollutants such as grease, oil or mud, and gravel should be laid if necessary.

E. DrillingThe most important and difficult phase of a drilling operation is the drilling it-self. Therefore, the greatest danger is in this phase. At the drilling stage, al-though there are rules and measures taken, still many may accidents occur often due to the mistakes of employ-ees. Some of these accidents cause se-rious injuries and even deaths.

Hazardous Conditions in Drilling Operations 1. Rotating/Moving Equipment: Fac-tors like loose work clothes, jewelry, belts, long hair, increase the risk of en-tanglement. And it is lethal to tangle around a rotating machine part at 1,500-2,000 rpm. All parts of the drill-ing equipment that are moving and

have a risk of burning must be cov-ered. At least one emergency stop button should be placed in the drilling machine at a point that the driller can reach without leaving his position and the location of this button should be clear with a warning sign.2. Manual Movement/Lifting: The equipment used in drilling (drill rods, chemicals…etc.) is mostly hand-held and moved. Materials over 30 kilograms should be transported with appropriate equipment or assistance. The recom-mended standard values for the load lifting guide published by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) are 30 kg for males and 20 kg for females.

For example, waist hernia, which can be described as an occupational disease, is caused by disobedience to manual lift-ing and carrying principles.3. Working at Height:According to NIOSH’s Guide to Working at Height, all work carried out over 90 cm height, is categorized in “working at height”. And all the personnel to work at height are obliged to use anti-fall systems. If there is no standard protection in the area to work, the personnel to work at height should wear equipment like safety rope, connection points (anchor, ter-minal, carabiner…etc.), mountable and parachute type safety belt.

The ladder to be used when climbing the tower should be checked. Equip-ment for working at high altitude should be checked before each use. If any one of them is weak, old, worn or missing, work at height should be can-celed. A 1 mm cut in the belts causes a loss of strength of up to 40%.During the case of falling, the para-chute type seat belt protects better than the waist type seat belt because it distributes the force over a wider area over the body.The person who will work at height should have no fear of height and health problems like dizziness.Three points of contact should be pro-vided during high altitude operation, especially during climbing up or down: two hands and one foot or one hand and two feet. 4. Hand and Finger Jam: This the most common type of injury in drilling oper-ations. Such accidents can be avoided by applying the following Standard Op-erating Procedures:• Fingers should not be inserted into the pipe while the drill rods or housing pipes are being transported. It must be carried from the outside or by us-ing specially manufactured transport equipment.• When the core inside the inner tube is being emptied, the hand or fingers should not be inserted under the tube.• When the inner tube is suspended, the hand should not be inserted into the tube.• The pipe switches must be used in the correct working positions.5. Oil Leak Hazards: Oils used during drilling are usually under high pres-sure and temperature. There is a risk of fire if the leaking oil leaks contacts with an open fire or an object at a temperature over 200°C. Serious in-juries will occur if the oil jet touches the skin. Equipment that is damaged by the lost oil is very costly. If the ma-chine needs to stop due to loss of oil, this leads to loss of production. On the other hand, cleaning the oil that causes pollution is a difficult and time consuming process.

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Causes of Oil Spills:Hydraulic hose producers claim that 80% of hose failures are caused by physical damage such as pulling, twist-ing, crushing or routine wear. Wear is the most common type of breakdown caused by rubbing the hoses together around the edges. The most common cause of leaks from conical connections is incorrect torque/force. Vibration dur-ing operation can cause the hydraulic hoses to wear very quickly.Oil Leak Precautions:• Hydraulic hoses should not be touched by hand. • High pressure hydraulic hoses should be covered with protective plastic card-board. • The machine must be equipped with protection from hot spattering. • At the beginning of each shift, the hoses should be visually inspected be-fore starting the machine. • Worn hoses or continuous leaks are danger indicators.6. Mistakes in the Use of Hand Tools: Some of the most common accidents in drilling operations are caused by im-proper use of hand tools.• Hand tools must be used in proper with their purposes. • Worn or cracked hand tools should not be used.• In this regard, practical training should be given to the employees.7. Fire: The following precautions must be taken to protect the drill from fire:• The area of 30 meters in diameter, which will surround the drilling loca-tion, should be cleaned from dead plant cover.• Engines must have spark catchers in exhaust silencers.• Due to the risk of hydraulic leaks, stoves should not be in the drilling tent.• Fuel must not be charged while the engine is warm or running.• All bottles or barrels containing oil or fuel must be stored vertically.• The areas where the flammable sub-stances are stored must be clearly in-dicated. “No smoking” signs should be placed next to these areas.• Leakage kits should be available at fuel storage locations.

• There must be at least three 6 kg fire extinguishers in each drill location.• Fire extinguishers should be placed in easily accessible locations.• At the beginning of each shift, the pressure indicators of fire extinguishers should be visually inspected.• Tubes with reduced pressure or non-safety pin must be refilled.• Fire tubes should be turned upside down every 2-3 days.8. Explosive Gases (Methane) That May Expose the Well: The methane gas is colorless, odorless and tasteless, but it is accompanied by hydrogen sul-fide (H2S), which is usually much more dangerous than methane. When the air ratio of the methane gas exceeds 5%, it combines with oxygen and explodes with the slightest spark.Smoking near the well should be strict-ly prohibited in projects where there is a risk of methane. All combustible ma-terials must be at least 10 m away from the well. A methane detector should be provided in each well.

Indications of Methane Existence:• Air bubbles are seen in drilling mud coming from the well.• Air bubbles are seen in still water.• Sudden or dense water flows out from the well.• Sounds like whisper are heard from the well.• Swamp or rotten egg odor is felt. This may be indicative of H2S that may ac-company methane.• Any flames of fire are also indicators of methane.

What to Do in Case of Methane Leakage:• Work should be stopped immediately.• All electrical equipment must be switched off.• Methane testing procedures should be followed.• If exists, the Emergency Action Plan should be implemented.• If the work area is safe and necessary equipment is available, Blowout Pre-venters (BOP) should be activated to prevent methane leakage.• The affected area should be marked as a fire hazard zone.

9. Administrative Precautions: All the risks mentioned above and all the pre-cautions recommended against these risks can only be managed correctly by administrative decisions. For this reason, it is vital that managers follow these rules first. The concept of OHS, which should be a part of the corpo-rate culture, should be carried to a level where it can be accepted without any question. Managers should learn to do time, work and expenditure plans without excluding OHS processes. For this purpose, the following subjects should be prescribed and followed by the managers: Emergency Plans, Main-tenance and Repair Records, Business Security Meetings, Accident/Incident/Hazard Reporting, Periodic Audits, Cor-rective and Preventive Action Forms, Material Safety Data Sheets, Standard Operating Procedures, Risk Analysis

ConclusionDrilling activities, which are classified under “dangerous and very danger-ous” category, have become a profes-sion that requires a serious amount of knowledge and attention. For this reason, the responsibilities of employ-ers and employee on health and safety have increased. By combining the ex-perience of the drilling companies in the sector gained over years and the new Health and Safety Regulations, the applicability of health and safety obli-gations is also increasing.

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