COURSE UNIT TITLE

: TECHNICAL MINERALOGY

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
GEE 5048 TECHNICAL MINERALOGY ELECTIVE 2 2 0 7

Offered By

Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

Offered to

Economic Geology
Economic Geology

Course Objective

IS MEASURING METHODS OF CRYSTALLOGRAPHIC , CHEMICAL AND PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF MINERALS, DISCUSSING THE USAGEOF MINERALS IN INDUSTRY AND ENVIRONMENT WITH EMPHASISING IN TERMS OF CAUSE-AFFECT RELATIONS AND THE LEARNING OF THE USAGE TECNIQUIES.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   ABLE TO IDENTIFY THE CHEMICAL, CRYSTALLOGRAPHIC AND PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF MINERALS (KNOWLEDGE)
2   ABLE TO EXPLAIN THE USAGE OF MINERALS IN INDUSTRY AND THE EFFECTS OF THE ENVIRONMENTS (COMPREHENSION)
3   ABLE TO CLASSIFY THE MINERALS IN TERMS OF USAGE IN INDUSTRY (ANALYSIS)
4   ABLE TO PLAN THE PROCEDURESTO USAGE OF MINERALS (SYNTHESIS)
5   ABLE TO DISCRIMINATE THE USEFULL AND HARMFULL MINERALS FOR ENVIRONMENT AND PEOPLE (EVALUATION)

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 INTRODUCTION: CHEMICAL, PHYSICAL CRYSTALLOGRAPHIC AND OPTICAL PROPERTIES RELATED WITH USAGE
2 SAMPLING AND ANALYSIS OF MINERALS
3 IDENTIFICATION OF MINERALS AND CLASSIFICATIONS OF ANALYTICAL THECNIQUES
4 TRADITIONAL IMAGE ANALYSES AND INTERPRETATIONS
5 MODERN IMAGE ANALYSES AND INTERPRETATIONS
6 MINERALS FOR THE MINERAL PROSPECTING
7 I. Midterm
8 NATIVE MINERALS: PROCESSING AND BENEFICATION, INDUSTRY, IMPACTS AND EFFECTS ONTHE HEALT AND ENVIRONMENTS. SULFITES: PROCESSING AND BENEFICATION, INDUSTRY, IMPACTS AND EFFECTS ONTHE HEALT AND ENVIRONMENTS( ELEMENT EXTRACTION).
9 OXIDES AND HYDROXIDES: PROCESSING AND BENEFICATION, INDUSTRY, IMPACTS AND EFFECTS ONTHE HEALT AND ENVIRONMENTS (element extractıons, dye, alloy, oxidant,electronic, refractor), HALITES: chemical industry, concerving, medicine, optic), CARBONATES: cancrete, lime, element benefication, compost, medicine.
10 BORATES: ROCESSING AND BENEFICATION, INDUSTRY, IMPACTS AND EFFECTS ONTHE HEALT AND ENVIRONMENTS (glass, chIna, space crafts, reactors, medicine, sanitation, pesticide, textiles), SULFATES-CHROMATES, PHOSFATES: PROCESSING AND BENEFICATION, INDUSTRY, IMPACTS AND EFFECTS ON THE HEALT AND ENVIRONMENTS.
11 ISLAND SILICATES: PROCESSING AND BENEFICATION, INDUSTRY, IMPACTS AND EFFECTS ONTHE HEALT AND ENVIRONMENTS (precious stone, refractor, abrasive, china, dye), RING SILICATES: (element benefication, precious stone, electronic, medicine and environment).
12 LAYERED SILICATES: PROCESSING AND BENEFICATION, INDUSTRY, IMPACTS AND EFFECTS ONTHE HEALT AND ENVIRONMENTS( decorative stones, biriquet, flag stone, ceramic, dye, rubber coating, sealing, lubricating, electirical isolater, medicine).
13 FRAMEWORK SILICATES: PROCESSING AND BENEFICATION, INDUSTRY, IMPACTS AND EFFECTS ONTHE HEALT AND ENVIRONMENTS( optic, precious stone, electronic, abbrasive, concrete, china, paper, glass, treatment, cleansing, bleaching, medicine and environment).
14 II. Midterm

Recomended or Required Reading

1. MUKHERJEE SWAPNA, 2011, APPLIED MINERALOGY: APPLICATION IN INDUSTRY AND ENVIRONMENT, SPRINGER INDIA
2. JONES MEURING P. , 1987, APPLIED MINERALOGY: A QUANTITATIVE APPROACH, GRAHAM AND TROTMAN, OXFORD
3. KIRSH HELMUT, 1968, APPLIED MINERALOGY: FOR ENGINEERS, TECHNOLOGIST AND STUDENTS, CHAPMAN AND HALL LTD AND SCIENCE PAPERBACKS, FROME AND LONDON

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

LECTURE (INTERACTIVE)
EVERY WEEK PREVIOUS WEEK WILL BE DISCUSSED
HOMEWORK FOR LAB STUDIES

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 ASG ASSIGNMENT
2 FIN FINAL EXAM
3 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE ASG * 0.50 + FIN * 0.50
4 RST RESIT
5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) ASG * 0.50 + RST * 0.50


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Yard. Doç. Dr. Ibrahim GÜNDOĞAN,
Jeoloji Mühendisliği, zemin kat Z63 nolu oda
Tel: 0232 3017327
e-posta: ibrahim.gundogan@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 12 2 24
Tutorials 12 2 24
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 12 3 36
Preparation for midterm exam 2 10 20
Preparation for final exam 1 15 15
Preparing assignments 1 40 40
Midterm 2 2 4
Final 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 165

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12PO.13PO.14
LO.15
LO.25
LO.355
LO.45
LO.55

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