COURSE UNIT TITLE

: STRATEGIC MINERALS AND THEIR PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGIES

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
MIN 5082 STRATEGIC MINERALS AND THEIR PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGIES ELECTIVE 2 0 0 5

Offered By

Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR ERKAN GÜLER

Offered to

Mineral Processing
Mineral Processing
Mineral Processing

Course Objective

Evaluation of important minerals, which is considered strategic for our country and its technologies, as well as explanation, other strategic minerals, production technologies, introduction of technologies which is not yet settled in our country.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Ability to introduce strategic minerals
2   Ability teaching of production technologies of strategic minerals
3   Ability to emphasize of the importance strategic minerals
4   Ability to determine the national value of strategic minerals
5   Evaluating the economic aspects of strategic minerals

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction and general information
2 Boron beneficiation and production of boron derivatives
3 Boron beneficiation and production of boron derivatives
4 The production technologies of boron derivatives in Türkiye
5 Production of borax, borax pentahydrate, dehydrate borax
6 The production technologies of mineral processing plants in Türkiye
7 Production of boric acit, dehydrate boric acit
8 The economy of boron and boron derivatives in the world
9 Rare Earth Elements (REE), REE ores and recovery processes
10 REE potential in Turkiye and the world
11 Uranium and torium potential in Turkiye and the world
12 Uranium and torium processing
13 The economy of nuclear energy
14 The economy of nuclear energy

Recomended or Required Reading

Batar, T., Akdağ, M., Kahraman, B. & Çelik, M. S., "Dry Processing of Boron Minerals for The Abatement of Environmental Pollution", 6th Balkan Conference, 1995, Ohri-Macedonia.

Akdağ, M., Batar, T., Ipekoğlu, Ü. Polat & M., "Processing of Tincal and Colemanite Ores by Decrepitation Method and Comparison with Wet Method in terms of Production Cost", 6th Mineral Processing Semp., 1996, Kuşadası, Türkiye

Batar, T., Kemal, M., Erdoğan, N. & Yavuz, A. S., "The Evaluation of Furnace Dust of A Sinterized Magnesite Plant and Elimination of Environmental Impacts", IXth International Mineral Processing Symposium, Kapadokya, 2002, (Expanded Abstract).

Erdoğan N., Kaya M., Batar, T & Kahraman B.; "Production of high purity MgCl2 from fine magnesite waste dust", 10th Mineral Processing Semp., 2004, Çeşme, Türkiye

Yıldız, N., "Nadir Toprak Elementleri", 2016, Ankara

Voncken, J.H.L., "The Rare Earth Elements", Springer International Publishing AG, 2016, Switzerland

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

PRESENTATITON + CLASSROOM DISCUSSION

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 ASG ASSIGNMENT
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE *0.35 + ASG *0.25 +FIN *0.40
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE *0.35 + ASG *0.25 +RST *0.40


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)

Doç. Dr. Erkan GÜLER
E-mail: eguler@deu.edu.tr / office phone: (232) 3017536

Office Hours

Monday, Tuesday 13:00 to 14:00

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 2 28
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 2 28
Preparation for final exam 1 22 22
Preparation for midterm exam 1 20 20
Preparing assignments 1 15 15
Final 1 2 2
Midterm 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 117

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11
LO.123332
LO.2322
LO.32232
LO.422222222222
LO.522222222222

CONTACT INFORMATION
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