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Çöpler Mine Disaster
On 13 February 2024, at the Çöpler Gold Mine in Erzincan Province, eastern Turkey, a mass of heap leach material collapsed, trapping a group of nine miners as it slid toward a creek. Background The Çöpler Gold Mine is near Çöpler village in the İliç district of Erzincan Province, eastern Turkey, and is operated by Ankara-based Anagold Mining Inc. ( tr, Anagold Madencilik San. ve Tic. A.Ş.). The company was established in 2009 as Alacer Anagold Inc. by the Turkish Lidya Mining Co. of Ahmet Çalık's owner Çalık Holding and the American Alacer Gold Corp. That same year construction works at the mine started, and gold production began in 2010. In 2020, Alacer Gold Corp. merged with the Canadian SSR Mining Inc., which moved its headquarters from Canada to Denver, Colorado, United States. The company's main shareholder is SSR Mining Inc. In 2012, the company stated that it planned to extract more than 10 million ounces of gold by 2019. In 2022, the proven a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Time In Turkey
Time in Turkey is given by UTC+03:00 year-round. This time is also called Turkey Time (''TRT''). The time at most is the same as in the Moscow Time and Arabia Standard Time zones. TRT was adopted by the Turkish Government on 8 September 2016. It was also in use in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus until it reverted to Eastern European Time (EET) in October 2017. During some seasons the TRT is also on the same time as Eastern European Time. History Until 1927, "Turkish time" (or ''alla turca'' time or ''ezânî'' time) referred to the system of setting the clocks to 12:00 midnight at sunset. This necessitated adjusting the clocks daily, although tower clocks were only reset two or three times a week, and the precise time varied from one location to another depending on latitude and longitude. The day was divided into two 12-hour periods, with the second 12:00 occurring at a "theoretical sunrise." In practice, the Turkish railroads used both Turkish time (for public sched ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |