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Gülşehir Salt Mine (Turkish: Gülşehir Tuz Madeni), officially named "Turkey 2023", [1] is an underground salt mine located at Tuzköy village in Gülşehir district of Nevşehir Province, Central Anatolia Region, Turkey. [2] The salt mine is located in the "Hacı Bektaş Salt Basin" about 27 km (17 mi) far from Nevşehir.
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Mining is documented in the "e-maden" computer system ("maden" means "mine" in Turkish). [47] Coal miners do not have the right to strike. [48] A company called Tarhan Maden has proposed a mine in the district of Tavşanlı in Kütahya Province. [49] Unions have complained of mines they say are unsafe, such as Kınık coal mine. [50]
The mine around Guleman was found by Abdullah Hüsrev Guleman in 1915. Chromium in Turkey is mostly found in Guleman, Fethiye, Erzincan-Tokat, Eskişehir-Bursa and Niğde (Toros Mountains)-Mersin areas. Until the creation of Etibank, mining in Turkey was made by foreign private capitals. Etibank started to production in Guleman in 1936.
The largest operating lignite mine in Turkey, [2] it is open pit and can produce 7 million tonnes a year, [3] which feeds the Afşin-Elbistan power stations. The average energy value of coal is 1.031 Kcal/kg, [ 4 ] seam depths are 50 – 175 m, moisture content 53%, ash content 20% and sulfur content 1.2%.
The South Aegean coal mines are lignite mines in Muğla Province in Turkey formerly all owned by Southern Aegean Lignite Enterprises, [1] but now some by YK Energy (so those sometimes known as Yenikoy Lignite Mines). They supply Kemerköy, Yeniköy and Yatağan power plants, such as Yatağan coal mine and Milas coal mine. [2] [3]
The Aladağ mine is a large chromium ore mine located at Adana Province in southern Turkey, 229 km (142 mi) south of the capital, Ankara. Aladağ represents one of the largest chromium reserves in Turkey having an estimated reserve of 200 million tonnes of chromium ore, which contains 10.84 million tonnes of chromium metal at its grading of 5.42%.
The Seydişehir mine is a large mine in the south of Turkey in Konya Province, 361 km south of the capital, Ankara. Seydişehir is situated on one of the largest veins of bauxite in Turkey , with estimated reserves of 30 million tonnes of bauxite.