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FROM THE EDITOR
TURKISH MINING SECTOR NEWS
INTELLIGENT DESIGN - Sandvik
CULMINATION OF 29 YEARS OF EXPERIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE
ACCUMULATION... - Engeotek
TURKEY: AT THE CROSS-ROADS - Dr. Kerim Şener
NEW UNDERGROUND DRILL RIGS FROM BARKOM GROUP - Barkom
ZENİT MADENCİLİK - Zenit Madencilik
DAMA ENGINEERING - Dama Engineering
THE LARGEST OF EUROPE: TÜPRAG KIŞLADAĞ GOLD MINE
ARDEF EXPANDED ITS GLOBAL FOOTPRINT BY PARTNERSHIP
AGREEMENT WITH RPM - Ardef
WEIR MINERALS TURKEY - Weir Minerals
GOLD METALLOGENY OF TURKEY – A QUANTITATIVE
ASSESSMENT - Özcan Yiğit
ATİLLA MAKİNA - Atilla Makina
BEING A PIONEER GOLD REFINERY IN TURKEY - Nadir Metal Refinery
GOLD MINING IN TURKEY - M. Ümit Akdur / Dr. Muhterem Köse
ADJARA HYDRO RACES AHEAD - Atlas Copco
KOZA, TURKEY’S “GOLD” COMPANY - Koza Altın
ARIANA RESOURCES - Ariana Resource
EFFECT OF THE PRIME MINISTRY’S CIRCULAR 2012/15 ON
MINING LAW - KGEC Law Firm
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the largest gold mine of Europe based
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Anatolia: Where Gold Gained its Value
Hazal Birses | [email protected]
Gold has occupied an important position in human culture more than 6000 years. Ancient civilizations used gold for several
purposes in their lives, and we still use gold to meet our needs in the modern age. Although fossil studies showed that natural
gold was found in caves, and it was probably used by Palaeolithic Men in 40,000 BC, the first gold was smelted by ancient Egyptian goldsmiths in about 3600 BC. Egyptian pharaohs and temple priest used gold as relic metal for adornment, meanwhile the
exchange of Egypt was barley instead of gold.
The more value gold gained, the wider geography it started to be used in by people. The “Gold of Troy” a.k.a. “Priam’s Treasure”
treasure hoard, excavated in Turkey and dating to the era 2450 -2600 BC.
During archaeological studies, a large amount of gold artefacts was found in Mesopotamia region, which was located between
the Tigris (Dicle in Turkish) and Euphrates (Fırat in Turkish) Valleys had no native golds.
Another archaeological site, Alacahöyük where the capital city Hattusa of the Hittite Empire was situated (2500 BC) is located
in central Turkey. In this archaeological site, Hittite kings were found buried with their own golds. The gold was obtained from
all other civilizations, and it was mixed and smelted into a melting pot.
The first use of gold as money claimed in Kingdom of Lydia which was located in western part of today’s Turkey in 700 BC. King
of Lydia, Alyattes developed the gold refining technology, and then the first stamped gold coins were produced in capital city
Sardis and used in trade by Lydian citizens. First Lydian gold coins were made of electrum (naturally occurring alloy of gold and
silver) lumps which were found in mountain streams of Lydia. King Croesus, son of Alyattes set the standards for coins to 98%
gold, and stamped it with the seal of king.
After Persian occupation on Lydia, Perisans brought the wealth of Egypt in addition to their own gold supply, but used the
Lydian gold smelting and refining technology. Persians exploited the alluvial golds, which were obtained from Arabian shore,
meanwhile Dardanelles of Lampsacus (Located in western Turkey, Çanakkale Province) started changing electrum coins into
gold coins to trade with Greeks.
Consequently, the journey of modern gold started the in Anatolia and expanded all over the world as time passes by. Today,
gold is demanded in all around the world for both ancient and modern uses. As it was in the ancient times, Anatolian people
desire gold more than many other nations. According to the statistics of 2013, Turkey is the 4th biggest gold jewellery consumer of all world (175.2 tonnes annually).
As Turkey lies in Tethyan Metallogenic Belt, it has a significant potential to supply this amount of gold demand with its own
resources. Recently the country is the leader gold producer of Europe with 31 tonnes of annual production (in 2014). However,
Turkey has notable unexplored areas which may consist huge gold deposits. In order to do further exploration activities within
these areas, exploration companies should be encouraged with incentives or reasonable legislations. In order to use our gold
potential, all obstacles to gold mining in Turkey must be eliminated for the sake of having an advanced economy.
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