Mineral Resources of Turkey / Modern Approaches in Solid Earth Sciences Bd.16 (PDF)

technical coordinator of the Turkey-Denmark joint project at the MTA in 1986. Between 1989 and 2016 he worked as a faculty member at Ankara University, Department of Geology, and he has been the Founding President of the Turkish Iron Working Group which conducts scientific research on the introduction and developments of iron deposits in Turkey since 2005. He was also the coordinator of the MTA Project entitled "Development of the iron deposits of Central Anatolia Region and Malatya-Hekimhan- Kuluncak Basin", which are the most important iron ore provinces of Turkey. During his scientific and academic career, Dr Ünlü published several articles on the origin of iron deposits in Turkey, especially on the deposits of the Divrigi and Hekimhan basins. He presented his work at various conferences, and he has been the editor of two books in the field of ore deposits, both of which have been translated into Turkish. He is currently the Editor in Chief of the Bulletin of the Mineral Research and Exploration.

Cahit Dönmez graduated from Firat University (Turkey) in 1998, completed his master degree in geology from Çukurova University (Turkey) in 2006 and is currently preparing his PhD Thesis on Economic Geology at the same university. He started to work at the Department of Mineral Research and Exploration of the General Directorate of Mineral Research and Exploration (MTA) in 2004, where is now Head of the Department. He is also Head of the Editorial Board of MTA. Throughout the years he worked at many exploration projects especially on ophiolite related mineral deposits around Turkey. He published papers on chromite deposits and VMS type deposits in national and international journals. He worked as a Unit Manager between 2012 and 2016 and as the Director of the Natural History Museum between 2016 and 2017.





M. Bahadir Sahin graduated from Hacettepe University (Turkey) in 1988, where he also obtained his master degree in mineralogy and petrography in 1991 and his PhD in Metamorphic Petrology in 1999. He started to work as a research assistant at the Mineralogy-Petrography Division of the Geological Engineering Department of Hacettepe University between 1988 and 1991. He worked on many exploration projects, especially on industrial minerals, mineralogy-petrography and ore deposits in Turkey for the General Directorate of Mineral Research and Exploration (MTA), where he also now works as an expert. He also worked as Unit Manager, Coordinator, Head of Department and Head of the Editorial Board of MTA between 1991 and 2015. He published papers on metamorphism, natural stones, industrial minerals and ore deposits in national and international journals.