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MTA General Manager Assoc. Dr. Yasin Erdogan: "As of May 2021, we have discovered 22 thousand tons of uranium reserves. Recently, a total of 24 thousand tons of uranium reserves have been discovered and Turkey's total reserves have been increased to 32 thousand tons"

In Malatya-Kuluncak, 128.314,000 tons of rare earth elements with a grade of 1829 ppm, and 6.000.000 tons of rare earth elements with a grade of 1420 ppm in Sivas-Karaçayır were detected. Again, in the last period, 294.32 tons of gold reserves have been discovered in all parts of the country.

Mining Turkey magazine December 2021 issue page 80


From the MTA 2020 annual report
"Reserves have been discovered in Malatya-Kuluncak field, which contains heavy rare and light rare elements, zinc, nickel, arsenic, rubidium, tantalum, beryllium, lithium, gallium, barium, strontium, cesium elements in our country.
First of all, Rare Earth Elements, then Rubidium and finally Niobium enrichment from the remaining solid phase were carried out from Malatya-Kuluncak ore." pages 89 and 127
 

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MTA General Manager Assoc. Dr. Yasin Erdogan: "As of May 2021, we have discovered 22 thousand tons of uranium reserves. Recently, a total of 24 thousand tons of uranium reserves have been discovered and Turkey's total reserves have been increased to 32 thousand tons"

In Malatya-Kuluncak, 128.314,000 tons of rare earth elements with a grade of 1829 ppm, and 6.000.000 tons of rare earth elements with a grade of 1420 ppm in Sivas-Karaçayır were detected. Again, in the last period, 294.32 tons of gold reserves have been discovered in all parts of the country.

Mining Turkey magazine December 2021 issue page 80


From the MTA 2020 annual report
"Reserves have been discovered in Malatya-Kuluncak field, which contains heavy rare and light rare elements, zinc, nickel, arsenic, rubidium, tantalum, beryllium, lithium, gallium, barium, strontium, cesium elements in our country.
First of all, Rare Earth Elements, then Rubidium and finally Niobium enrichment from the remaining solid phase were carried out from Malatya-Kuluncak ore." pages 89 and 127
Good to hear that they have managed to enrich / extract those rare earth minerals.
 

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Good to hear that they have managed to enrich / extract those rare earth minerals.

“A FIRST IN OUR COUNTRY”, Cerium, Lanthanum, Neodymium/Paraceodmium, Uranium, Thorium and Heavy Rare Earth Oxides (ANTO) have been recovered with over 99% purity on a laboratory scale. (These are the news from last year)

Yttrium (used in lasers, microwave filters)
Dysprosium (magnets, lasers are also used)
Erbium (Lasers are used in vanadium steel)
Ytterbium (Infrared laser, chemical reducers)
Holmium (Lasers)
Terbium (Phosphorus, lasers, fluorescent lamps)
Thulium (Portable X-ray machine)
Gadolinium (Computer memories, magnets, lasers)
Lutetium (PET scanning detectors, high refractive index glasses)
It was purified to 95.4%. Nitrogenous environment was provided by re-dissolving and 99% purity Cerium dioxide(Cerium oxide (CeO2) is one of the preferred buffer layers for the fabrication of superconductors, especially for YBa2Cu3O7 (YBCO) processing.) was developed.

lanthanum oxide (99.94%) purity, neodymium-praseodymium oxide was obtained with a purity of 99.10%. (page 129)

You can also see where these rare elements are used specifically on page 8 here. Guidance systems and superconductors were the most notable.
 

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