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Course Name	Turkish	Maden Aramaları
	English	Mineral Exploration
Course Code	JEO 338	Credit	Lecture (hour/week)	Recitation (hour/week)	Laboratory (hour/week)
Semester	7	3	3	-	-
Course Language		Turkish
Course Coordinator		Demet Yıldırım
Course Objectives		Relationship between plate tectonic with ore deposits origin. Reserve and grade concepts. Ore textures and structure relationship with paragenesis. Systematic sampling for research, ore exploration techniques. Defining drilling location, and hole logging. Lithology-ore relationship. Importance of alteration and anomaly in ore exploration. Modern methods in ore exploration.
Course Description		Summary knowledge about ore deposits, definition and meaning of ore prospection, definition of influence area, grade, density and reserve. Subsurface geological prospection, sampling, measure, mapping, approaches to ore, laboratory operation, prospection of radioactive and luminescant minerals, placer prospection, underground prospection, geophysical prospection, drill samples, logging. Mining exploitation and mining geology, mining economy, problems and solutions.
Course Outcomes		1 – Ability to interpret ore deposits’ origin and deposition mechanism. 2 – Interpretation of clues in the field that leads to ore deposits. 3 – Managing and guiding an ore exploration Project. Ability to define drilling location. 4 – Interpreting ore textures. 5 – Regocnition the lithology-ore relation 6 – The use of Computer and satellite.
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