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Organization：A new focus on mine safety improvement in a complex operational and business environment by Komljenovic, Dragan, Loiselle, Georges, Kumral, Mustafa

“…The daily operations in the mining industry are still a significant source of risk with regard to occupational safety and health（OS ＆ H）. Various research…”
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Out of the Comfort Zone: Quantifying Country Risk for Foreign Mining Project Investment Feasibilities by Renaud, Matt, Kumral, Mustafa

“…As high-quality mineral deposits are thoroughly exploited, mines of the future will have to move towards more remote and lower quality projects. With these…”
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A system-wide approach to minimize the operational cost of bench production in open-cast mining operations by Ozdemir, Burak, Kumral, Mustafa

“…The production cycle of open-cast coal mines generally includes drilling, blasting, loading, hauling and coal preparation activities. Individual optimization…”
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Management of Drilling Operations in Surface Mines Using Reliability Analysis and Discrete Event Simulation by Ugurlu, Omer Faruk, Kumral, Mustafa

“…Low commodity prices have forced many mining companies to explore new strategies to minimize operating costs. One cost-saving strategy is to increase drilling…”
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Impacts of Grade Distribution and Economies of Scale on Cut-off Grade and Capacity Planning by Balci, Mehmet, Kumral, Mustafa

“…Strategic mine planning centers on solving cut-off grade selection, capacity planning, and block sequencing. Even though significant knowledge has been…”
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Optimal Inspection and Preventive Maintenance Scheduling of Mining Equipment by Angeles, Enzo, Kumral, Mustafa

“…A typical mining company has three important assets: the human labor-force, the orebody, and the equipment. Trucks, excavators, drilling machines, crushers,…”
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Spatial Entropy for Quantifying Ore Loss and Dilution in Open-Pit Mines by Hmoud, Samer, Kumral, Mustafa

“…Effective management of ore loss and dilution is essential for successful grade control and short-term mine planning due to their significant impact on the…”
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Stope Sequencing Optimization for Underground Mines Through Chance-Constrained Programming by Sari, Yuksel Asli, Kumral, Mustafa

“…Underground mining operations are sensitive to price fluctuations because they usually perform with a narrow profit margin compared to open-pit mining…”
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Enhancing mine risk assessment through more accurate reproduction of correlations and interactions between uncertain variables by Ardian, Aldin, Kumral, Mustafa

“…Risk is a significant phenomenon in mineral industries due to several associated social, environmental, technical, and financial uncertainties. Risk assessment…”
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Process optimization for acidic leaching of rare earth elements (REE) from waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) by Yuksekdag, Ayse, Kose-Mutlu, Borte, Zeytuncu-Gokoglu, Bihter, Kumral, Mustafa, Wiesner, Mark R., Koyuncu, Ismail

“…E-waste (EW) from discarded electrical and electronic devices is a potential source of rare earth elements (REEs) that might be recovered from urban and…”
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Petrophysical Characteristics of Silurian Mudstones from Central Taurides in Southern Turkey by Döner, Zeynep, Hu, Qinhong, Kumral, Mustafa, Kibria, Md Golam, Qiao, Hongguo, Sun, Mengdi

“…This study used a range of integrated and complementary experiments to examine pore-structure, fluid-shale wetting characteristics, sample size-dependent…”
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Optimization of drill bit replacement time in open-cast coal mines by Ugurlu, Omer Faruk, Kumral, Mustafa

“…To gain a competitive edge within the international and competitive setting of coal markets, coal producers must find new ways of reducing costs. Increasing…”
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Gold-Copper Mining Investment Evaluation Through Multivariate Copula-Innovated Simulations by Singh, Jagjit, Ardian, Aldin, Kumral, Mustafa

“…Risk assessment of mining projects is a requirement in the mineral industries. In this process, many risk variables are time-dependent, and the only available…”
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Genesis and Evolution of the Yolindi Cu-Fe Skarn Deposit in the Biga Peninsula (NW Turkey): Insights from Genetic Relationships with Calc-Alkaline Magmatic Activity by Mustafa Kaya, Mustafa Kumral, Cihan Yalçın, Amr Abdelnasser

“…The current work investigates the impact of magmatic fluids and metasomatic processes on the Yolindi Cu-Fe skarn deposit in the Biga Peninsula, Turkey. It…”
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Sulfur and Carbon–Oxygen Isotopic Geochemistry and Fluid Inclusion Characteristics of the Yolindi Cu-Fe Skarn Mineralization, Biga Peninsula, NW Turkey: Implications for the Source and Evolution of Hydrothermal Fluids by Mustafa Kaya, Mustafa Kumral, Cihan Yalçın, Amr Abdelnasser

“…The current study sought to investigate the physiochemical conditions and fluid evolution within the Yolindi Cu-Fe skarn mineralization located in the Biga…”
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Underground Haulage Network Design Using HDBSCAN and RRT Algorithms Built on Dubins Path by Shao, Zhixuan, Moon, Young Bin, Yang, Yu Cheng, Kumral, Mustafa

“…Since the discoveries of favorable deposits are becoming increasingly difficult, mining operations shift to lower grade and deeper deposits. The viability of…”
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Rare earth elements (REEs) investigation of fly ash placers in southwestern Taurides: footprints of alkaline potassic Gölcük volcanism, Turkey by Unluer, Ali Tugcan, Doner, Zeynep, Kaya, Mustafa, Kocaturk, Huseyin, Abdelnasser, Amr, Kumral, Mustafa, Budakoglu, Murat, Kirikoglu, Mehmet Sezai

“…The importance of Rare Earth Elements (REE) is consistently rising for industrialized countries due to their widespread usage in various applications…”
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Dimensioning a stockpile operation using principal component analysis by Li, Siyi, de Werk, Marco, St-Pierre, Louis, Kumral, Mustafa

“…Mineral processing plants generally have narrow tolerances for the grades of their input raw materials, so stockpiles are often maintained to reduce material…”
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The Soma polymetallic hydrothermal Pb–Zn-Cu(± Mo ± Ag ± Au) mineralizations in the south of Biga Peninsula, NW Turkey: constraints from mineralogy, geochemistry, and fluid inclusion data by Kumral, Mustafa, Kabiru, Mohammed, Aydogan, Mustafa Selman, Kocaturk, Huseyin, Unluer, Ali Tugcan

“…The NW Anatolia of Turkey (especially the Biga Peninsula) hosts substantial skarn, porphyry Cu-Mo, and epithermal Pb–Zn ± Ag ± Au mineralizations. Of these,…”
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Post-Subduction Granite Magmatism and Gold-Sulfide Mineralization in the Abu Zawal (Fatira) Area, Eastern Desert, Egypt by Refaey M. El-Wardany, Jiangang Jiao, Basem Zoheir, Mustafa Kumral, Mustafa Kaya, Amr Abdelnasser

“…Gold-sulfide mineralization in the Abu Zawal (Fatira) mine area, North Eastern Desert of Egypt, is related to porphyritic felsite dikes and elongate…”
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