Surface mining
Digging up deposits less than 100 meters from the Earths surface
What is surface mining
How can animals be harmed?
This has to do with large amounts of money having to be spent
What is high cost
Humans fought for this reason
What are battles for land rights
When ores are located more than 100 meters below the Earths surface
What is subsurface mining
This method uses explosives to get rid of big bodies of rocks
What is open-pit mining
This method uses a slanted tunnel dug at an angle to get ores
What is slope mining
This method uses draglines to remove overburden and then the overburden is put somewhere else with conveyor belts and bulldozers
What is strip mining
This method is the most complex and used for very deep deposits that uses the hoist system
What is shaft mining
This method is used for coal seems and use explosives and draglines to push the debris
What is Mountaintop removal
This method is used for deposits located inside hills or mountains, they cut a horizontal tunnel into the ridge and use machines to get the ore and transport it out
What is Drift mining
This is huge amounts of rock and soil that have to be removed to get to deposits
What is overburden
This system is a high speed elevator for miners to use
What is a hoist system