Properties of Mining
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Science
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12th Grade
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Hard
Joseph Anderson
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24 Slides • 11 Questions
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Mining
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Ores: Groups of minerals that are mined so metal or metals can be removed
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Nonmetallic minerals: Minerals, including gemstones, that as a whole have valuable properties
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Fuels: substances that can be used to generate energy
Ex. Petroleum, Coal and natural gas
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Groundwater
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Strip mining
Occurs in shallow horizontal deposits near the surface. During strip mining layers of surface soil and rock are removed to expose the resource.
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Subsurface mining
is the extraction of minerals and ores from underground.
Subsurface mining is the removal of deposits from the earth by drilling underneath layers of rock and dirt.
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Open pit mining
Extracting rock or minerals from the earth by their removal from an open pit or borrow.
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Mountaintop removal
a form of extracting coal in which companies use heavy explosives to blast off hundreds of feet from an ancient mountain ridge to access thin seams of coal below.
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Undersea mining
is the process of retrieving mineral deposits from the deep sea
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Mining
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