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4.8.1. Gold and Silver Mining

Resource Quantities of the Gold Fields where MTA is the Finder (General Directorate of Mineral Research and
Table -9
Exploration (MTA), 2024)
Year Resource (tonnes) Tenor
2019 825,306,901 0.26 gr/tonne Au

2020 75,750,000 0.19-1.034 gr/tonne Au
2021 42,190,000 0.175-3.26 gr/tonne Au
2022 74,000,000 0.106-1.76 gr/tonne Au

2023 980,000,000 0.1-3.27 gr/tonne Au

Table -10 Resource Quantities of the Silver Fields that MTA has been awarded as the Finder (MTA, 2024)

Year Resource (tonnes) Tenor
2019 268,955,414 14.94 gr/tonne Ag
2020 4,430,000 16 gr/tonne Ag

2021 4,390,000 1.53-83.1 gr/tonne Ag
2022 23,240,000 2.24-41 gr/tonne Ag

2023 302,000,000 1.53-83.1 gr/tonne Ag

4.9. Forest Asset

Almost all of the forests of Türkiye are under the rule and possession of the state and are ma-
naged by the General Directorate of Forestry (GDF) based on the principle of sustainability. Pur-
suant to Article 26 of the Forestry Law No. 6831, all forests of the country are managed in accor-
dance with forest management plans. In terms of the size and changes in forest areas, according
to the results of forest inventory assessments carried out to date, the size of the general forest
area was determined as 20.2 million hectares (26.1%) in 1963-1972, the first inventory period,
and 23.4 million hectares (30%) in 2023, the last inventory year. According to the results of this
inventory, there has been an increase of approximately 3.2 million hectares in the forest area in
the last 51 years.
Table -11 Distribution of Forest Areas, 1946-2023 (GDF, 2024)

Forest Form 1963-1972 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023

Forest Total (ha) 20,199,296 22,740,297 22,933,000 23,110,000 23,245,000 23,363,071
Grove (ha) 10,934,607 21,540,131 21,656,366 21,833,366 22,248,680 22,367,745
Coppice Forest (ha) 9,264,689 1,200,166 1,276,634 1,276,634 996,320 995,326

Table -12 Türkiye’s Tree Wealth (Planted Bark Trunk Volume) (GDF, 2024)

Grove (m ) Coppice Forest (m ) Total (m )
2
2
2
Normal Closed 1,693,480,606 12,092,622 1,705,573,228
Hollow Closed 64,834,630 3,264,429 68,099,059
Total 1,758,315,236 15,357,051 1,773,672,287

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