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Course Name	Turkish	Madencilik ve Çevre
	English	Mining and Environment
Course Code	MAD 252E	Credit	Lecture (hour/week)	Recitation (hour/week)	Laboratory (hour/week)
Semester	4	3	3	-	-
Course Language		English
Course Coordinator		Türker Hüdaverdi Türker Hüdaverdi
Course Objectives		1. Environmental effects of mining exploration and production 2. Environmental considerations during mine planning stages 3. Environmental Laws and Environmental Impact Assessment for Mining Activities 4. Water management and waste management in mining 5. Mine rehabilitation and mine closure 6. The environmental effects of mineral processing and coal processing operations
Course Description		Environmental effects of mining activities, The terms used in mine planning and environment, Prevention of dust and noise exposures, Water management, Waste management, Mine subsidence, Coal mining and environment, Acid mine drainage, Mine closure and reclamation, Environmental laws, Environmental impact assessment for mining activities, Numerical calculations for environmental impact, Description and classification of ore dressing tailings, Environmental effect of mineral processing facilities, Site rehabilitation of ore dressing plants
Course Outcomes		Students who pass the course will be able to: 1. Learn environmental effect of the mining operation 2. Learn environmental considerations during mine planning stages 3. Learn water management and waste management 4. Learn Environmental Laws and Preparing Environmental Impact Assessment reports for Mining 5. Learn mine rehabilitation and closure processes 6. Learn Environmental Effect of Ore Dressing Facilities and coal preparation plants 7. Design of Tailing dams and Site Rehabilitation of Ore Dressing Plants
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Textbook		MAD252E Lecture Notes. ITU, Faculty of Mines (main text) Spitz K. and Trudinger J. (2009). Mining and the Environment: From Ore to Metal. CRC Press, Leiden, The Netherlands Bell F. G. and Donnelly L. J. (2006). Mining and its Impact on the Environment. Taylor & Francis, New York, NY.
Other References		Sengupta M. (2021). Environmental Impacts of Mining Monitoring Restoration and Control, 2nd edition. CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida. Kesler S. E. and Simon A. C. (2015). Mineral Resources, Economics and the Environment, 2nd edition. Cambridge University Press, UK. Ravi K. J., Cui Z., Domen J. K. (2015). Environmental Impact of Mining and Mineral Processing: Management, Monitoring, and Auditing Strategies. Butterworth-Heinemann, Amsterdam. Ripley E. A., Redmann R. E., Crowder A. A. (1996). Environmental Effects of Mining. CRC Press, Boca Raton Florida.

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