Özet:

Mining sector developing rapidly in recent years also brings it together environmental issues. Main problem of this situation comes from high amounts of mining process tailings produced in mines every year. Particularly, economically invaluable and sulfur containing tailings from production of concentrates in metal mining cause acidic water leaking in the presence of water and oxygen, hence significantly permanent damage to environment. Several studies demonstrated that it is possible to considerably reduce environmentally damage caused by disposal of these tailings using conventional methods (tailings dam etc.) along with new technologies and methods. One of these methods is paste technology which allows the tailings to be disposed safely. While some of these tailings are used at underground as paste materials, another part of the tailings are evaluated at aboveground as paste disposal materials. In this context, it is important to examine paste technology as an alternative method to conventional aboveground methods in our country

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