Mineral Resources of Turkey

Introduction.- Ore Deposit Models.- Geological Evolution and Tectonic Domain of Turkey.- Ophiolite Related Mineral Resources.- Distribution, Character, and Genesis of Gold and Silver Deposits- A Focus on Epithermal Environments.- An Overview of Iron Deposits.- Skarns and Skarn Deposits.- Porphyry Cu-Mo (+ Au) Deposits.- Volcanic Massive Sulphide (VMS) Deposits.- Carbonate Hosted Pb-Zn Deposits.- The Main Borate Deposits of the Anatolian Plateau.- Trona Deposits in the Evaporite Sequence.- Lateritic Ore Deposits (Ni-Al).- Radioactive and Rare Earth Elements.- Marbles.- Other Industrial Minerals.

Franco Pirajno is an internationally recognized expert on mineral systems, with more than 50 years of experience, in industry, academia and government. He has extensive knowledge in tectonics, ore deposit geology in: Europe, southern Africa, South East Asia, New Zealand, southwest Pacific, China, southern Siberia, Greenland and Australia. He is the author of four books, co-authored a book and a monograph on mineral deposits and has published more than 200 peer-reviewed papers, 20 peer-reviewed geological maps. Supervised and/or reviewed 62 MSc and PhD theses; and is the author of 68 unpublished company reports. Nominated highest cited author by Thomson-Reuter for 2011 in Economic Geology at The University of Western Australia.  Adjunct Professor at Centre for Exploration Targeting (University of Western Australia) and at the Institute of Mineral Resources of the Chinese Academy of Geological Science, Beijing, China. Honorary Professor, China University ofGeosciences, Beijing, China. Research Associate at the Australian Centre for Astrobiology, University of New South Wales, Sydney. Honorary Research Fellow at CERCAMS (Centre for Russian and Central EurAsian Mineral Studies), Natural History Museum, London. Currently on the Editorial Board of the Australian Journal of Earth Sciences; Russian Geology & Geophysics and Gondwana Research. Appointed Editor-in-Chief of Ore Geology Reviews in May 2012 and Series Editor of Modern Approaches in Solid Earth Sciences (Springer) in November 2012. 


Taner Ünlü started his career working on the iron deposits of Malatya-Hekimhan-Kuluncak Basin at the General Directorate of Mineral Research at Exploration (MTA) in 1974. He completed his PhD at the Technical University of Berlin, Institute of Ore Deposits, between 1978 and 1983. He has conducted scientific studies on genetic modeling of the iron deposits of the Divrigi region between 1984 and 1985 at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.