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RECLAMATION PLANNING FOR COAL MINE IN ISTANBUL, AGACLI REGION
Abstract
Mines being as unrenovated resources have to be operated where they deposit. Mining activities are inevitably carried out mostly at forests or cultivated lands and close to urban areas. Almost every facet of mining activity can create an undesirable visual impact. Reclamation of partially or totally destructed land by variety facilities should be taken into consideration before the beginning of mining and should also be put into reality in parallel with mining operation. Therefore, the cost and period of reclamation will overwhelmingly be minimized. In the scope of this study, the area of 77.4 ha located in Istanbul- AgaclД± Region was chosen as a working area. Coal production was completed by surface mining only in this part (77.4ha) of the land and approximately 4.5 million tonnes m3 overburden material were excavated, 75.000 tonnes coal were produced during 25 years operation period. In this study, after evaluation of current condition and environmental features of the area, various experimental studies were carried out on representative samples taken from overburden material and water sources in order to find out the existence of any contamination and to determine the properties of samples subjected to the reclamation. As a result of experimental data, simple reclamation proposal was developed. However, according to the future mining plans data of licence holder company, mining activities can be started in the western part of the land in order to evaluate coal seams. Therefore, reclamation plan that contains recreation usage following grading and vegetation was proposed on the area of 18 ha which will not be affected by the future mining operation.
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