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Koza Gold Corporation
Koza Gold is a leading Turkish gold mining company which currently owns four working mines at Ovacik, Cukuralan, Kaymaz and Himmetdede. Koza have a track record of sustained profitability underpinned by low operating costs. They produced 128 koz of gold in the first six months of 2015 and generated revenues of TL 385.2 million.
Koza were the first Turkish company in history to realise gold production in the Republic with the opening of the Ovacik mine at Bergama and this was a key factor in turning the country’s significant gold potential into economical gain.
Due to certain intrinsic properties, the transition metal mercury can be used to separate gold from other materials. Mercury readily forms alloys with other metals called amalgams and is amalgamated with gold to facilitate the recovery of gold from its ores. To recover gold from the 50% mercury and 50% gold amalgam, it is heated to evaporate the mercury, leaving the gold behind. Any of the four stages of the small-scale gold production process release mercury into the environment and it is well known that mercury is highly toxic, causing damage to the nervous system at even relatively low levels of exposure. When it came to protecting its personnel in the Gold Room by monitoring the mercury hazard, Koza knew that the only instrument that could provide the low level detection capability, the speed of response and specificity required to deliver a viable measurement was the Jerome 405 Gold Film Mercury Vapour Analyser. Koza therefore approached ABLE Instruments in this regard. ABLE put forward a fixed point monitoring solution with the Jerome housed in an environmental enclosure with local display and external beacons for visual alarm indication.