According to TURKSTAT, 812 million tons ofwaste were generated in mining enterprises in 2018. Mineral waste accounted for percent 99.9 of the total mining waste. It was found that percent 97.9of mineral wastes were pickling material/tails.
Looking at the distribution of total mining waste by recovery and disposal methods in 2020, percent 71.3 was disposed of in tailings piles, tailings dams, or landfills, percent 26.4was backfilled in quarries, and percent 2.3was recovered or disposed of in other ways[57].
TABLE 13- NUMBER OF MINING WASTE LANDFILLS
|
YEARS |
2011 |
2012 |
2013 |
2014 |
2015 |
2016 |
2017 |
2018 |
2020 |
|
Number of Mining Waste Landfills |
6 |
17 |
25 |
32 |
34 |
36 |
39 |
51 |
61 |
Source: The Ministry of Environment, Urbanisation and Climate Change, General Directorate of Environmental Management,2021
GRAPH 87- MINING WASTE BY YEARS
Source: TURKSTAT, “Waste Statistics 2020”
