Cahit Dönmez

About

He graduated from Fırat University. He held MSc in 2006 and Ph.D. in 2023 in Economic geology from Çukurova University. He has been working in MTA in different positions on many exploration projects around Turkey since 2004. He run as an administrator since 2012 as Unit Manager, Director of the Natural History Museum (2016-2017), Chair of the publication Board (2016-2019), and head of the Department of Mineral Research and Exploration (2017-2021).

Employment

• MTAIC Deputy General Director
  2025 - Present
• Maden Tetkik ve Arama Genel Müdürlüğü MTA Expert
  2021 - 2025
• Maden Tetkik ve Arama Genel Müdürlüğü Head
  2017 - 2021

Education

• Çukurova Üniversitesi PhD
  2009 - 2023
• Çukurova Universitesi Master
  2003 - 2006

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (22)

• Geology, Geochemistry, and Geochronology of the Giant Pelitic Mafic-Type Karaburun Volcanogenic Massive Sulfide Deposit (Central Pontides, Turkey)
  ECONOMIC GEOLOGY 2025 DOI: 10.5382/ECONGEO.5198
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• Chromitites of Teskuduk and Nurata Ophiolites (Southern Tien Shan Belt, Uzbekistan): Geochemical characteristics and implications of chromitite genesis
  Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie - Abhandlungen 2025 DOI: 10.1127/njma/0450
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• Au-rich bimodal-mafic type volcanogenic massive sulphide deposit associated with Jurassic arc volcanism from the Central Pontide (Kastamonu, Turkey)
  Ore Geology Reviews 2022 DOI: 10.1016/j.oregeorev.2021.104660
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• Geochemical, isotopic and U-Pb geochronological investigation of the late Cretaceous Karaçayır carbonatite (Sivas, Turkey): Insights into mantle sources within a post-collisional tectonic setting
  Ore Geology Reviews 2022 DOI: 10.1016/j.oregeorev.2021.104650
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• Geological, Mineralogical-Petrographical and Fluid-Inclusion Characteristics of the Çatalçam (Soma-Manisa) Au-Pb-Zn-Cu Mineralization
  Bulletin Of The Mineral Research and Exploration 2021 DOI: 10.19111/bulletinofmre.930094
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• Discovery of extremely high-Al podiform chromitites from the Lycian (Marmaris) ophiolite, SW Turkey: Implications for chromitite genesis
  Ore Geology Reviews 2020
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• Geology of the Yeşilyurt (Malatya) fluorite-gold deposit: an example of low-angle normal fault related mineralization, Eastern Anatolia-Turkey
  Bulletin Of The Mineral Research and Exploration 2020 DOI: 10.19111/bulletinofmre.797729
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• Composition of Pancarli Magmatic Ni-Cu±(PGE) Sulfide Deposit in the Cadomian-Avalonian Belt, Eastern Turkey
  Journal of Earth Science 2020 DOI: 10.1007/s12583-020-1299-5
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• Discovery of extremely high-Al podiform chromitites from the Lycian (Marmaris) ophiolite, SW Turkey: Implications for chromitite genesis
  ORE GEOLOGY REVIEWS 2020 DOI: 10.1016/J.OREGEOREV.2020.103817
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• -Mineralogy, rare earth elements geochemistry and genesis of the Keban-West Euphrates (Cu-Mo)-Pb-Zn skarn deposit (Eastern Taurus metallogenic belt, E Turkey)
  ORE GEOLOGY REVIEWS 2019 DOI: 10.1016/J.OREGEOREV.2019.103102
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