DEVELOPMENTS IN MINING IN TURKEY UNTIL THE SECOND WORLD WAR
İKİNCİ DÜNYA SAVAŞI’NA KADAR TÜRKİYE’DE MADENCİLİK ALANINDAKİ GELİŞMELER

Author : Özkan DEMİR
Number of pages : 478-490

Abstract

The Mining has become the main activities and the economical richness of the humanbeings’ depending of the situation of the region where people inhabited since the First Age (the Antiquity). Anatolia has been home to many civilizations throughout history. When these civilizations became aware of the mines in there gions they were in, they took them out with primitive methods, then processed and used them. As a result of this situation, a large mine legacy was left from the Ottoman State to the Republic of Turkey in the Anatolian geography we still live in. The Republican government shave also included mining in their policies for the economic evaluation of this wealth and have chosen the way to benefit from the existing mines. Etibank established in 1935 for this purpose has been active in extracting and processing the mines with modern methods. The minin gsector in Turkey has gained great momentum as a result of the work of this in stitution.

Keywords

mining, planned industrialization, Etibank, copper, chrome…

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