Appropriate site determination before construction of hazardous mine tailings dam; Eti Maden Kırka boron business example

It is possible to say that mining activities are carried out intensively in our country and mining activities are gaining momentum gradually. However, it cannot be ignored that mining activities seriously harm the environment. The mining wastes seriously affect the environmental ecosystem. By polluting the surrounding water resources such as surface waters, underground waters and dams, it adversely affects all living things that benefit from those waters. We can say that especially our people living in the rural population of our country are seriously damaged by mining wastes. For this purpose, it is very important to manage mine wastes with different methods. In this study, the disposal of the mines by the above-ground storage method will be discussed. For this purpose, the importance and necessity of the waste dams, which are frequently used in the above-ground storage method, and some of the experienced waste dam accidents are discussed. Our study area covers most of the city center of Kütahya, Seyitgazi District of Eskişehir and İhsaniye District of Afyon Province. Appropriate site selection studies were carried out before the construction of the tailings dams required for the storage of the mine wastes around the Kırka Boron Operations Directorate affiliated to the Eti Mine Works in the Kırka Town of Seyitgazi District of Eskişehir.. In the selection of suitable places for the construction of mine tailings dams, which is our subject; General criteria such as topographical condition of the land, environmental and climatic factors, geological and hydrogeological condition of the study area, surface water resources, ecological condition of the study area, land use status, roads in the study area and earthquake hazard of the study area were discussed and how these criteria were used in dam construction. attempted to play a role. By weighting these criteria with 1/7-7 scale values with the Analytical Hierarchy Method (AHY), weight values are created for all criteria to be used in the analysis. The appropriate location study was concluded by mapping these criteria, which we discussed, according to their weight values, with ARCGIS10.3, a geographic information systems (GIS) software program.