The feasibility report of "Madenköy (Şirvan-Siirt) Pyritic Copper Ore Deposit" was accomplished as a
model feasibility study in connection with one of the activities of a United Nations Development Program
(UNDP) titled as "Strengthening the Feasibility Studies Department of the Mineral Research and Exploration
Institute of Turkey (Maden Tetkik ve Arama Enstitüsü, "MTA")" coded as TUR/77/002. One of the other
activities of this UNDP Project is another model feasibility study which was realized on Deveci (Hekimhan-
Malatya) Iron Ore Deposit".
MTA holds the responsibility for all national mineral exploration programmes, carrying them to the
technical and economic feasibility stage and thereupon passing them to one of the State Mining
Organizations (ie Etibank, Turkish Coal Works, Turkish Iron and Steel Works) or to private enterprises.
The main objective of the project is to accelarate the exploitation of the country's mineral deposits,
especially those of key importance to the national economy, by providing for the expeditious preparation of
mining feasibility study of a uniformly high standards by the MTA. Therefore, the immediate objective of the
project has been choosen to provide advanced training and relevant experience to the personnel of the
Feasibility Studies Department and thus, in conjunction with related projects, to establish the MTA as an
organization capable of carrying out fully integrated programmes of mineral exploration ending with the
production of detailed mining feasibility studies of the highest international standard, and in the course of
the training operation, to carry out model feasibility studies on certain selected mineral deposits within
Turkey.