Types of Mines
Steps of Mining
Vocabulary
What type of mine did it come from?
Random!
100
Mostly used for extraction of hard minerals
What is an underground mine?
100
Used during prospecting, they are cylindrical samples of rock.
What are core samples?
100
Entrance to a mine
What is an adit?
100
Diamond
What is a kimberlite pipe?
100
Step of mining that includes restoring topography, replacing topsoil, and replanting native vegetation.
What is reclamation?
200
Extraction of building materials such as limestone or marble
What is a quarry?
200
The stage in mining in which the mineral being searched for is separated by physical or chemical means.
What is refining?
200
Rock that must be removed to reach ore
What is overburden?
200
Gold, Copper, Iron, Silver, Zinc, Nickel, Tin
What is an underground mine?
200
Waste material from mines
What are tailings?
300
Used to mine coal, miners remove strips of overburden and place it into adjacent strips
What is strip mining?
300
This step utilizes heavy machinery
What is extraction?
300
Area in an underground mine in which ore has already been removed.
What is a stope?
300
Limestone, Marble, Gypsum
What is a quarry?
300
Usually gold or other gemstones, found in riverbeds.
What is loose ore?
400
Mines that have stepped walls to prevent rocks from caving in.
What is open pit mining?
400
The first stage in reclamation
What is land restoration?
400
A mixture of metals, used to increase strength and durability of metals
What is an alloy?
400
Coal, found on flat lands
What is a strip mine?
400
Diamond mines are usually found in this shaped formation
What is carrot-shaped?
500
Used for coal mining, this type of mine is found mostly in Kentucky and western Pennsylvania, can be extremely harmful to water supplies
What is mountain top removal?
500
Mainly used for extracting metals from large samples of ore, this process uses heat and chemicals.
What is smelting?
500
A mixture of tin and lead
What is bronze?
500
Coal from Kentucky
What is mountain top removal?
500
Rock that contains economically valuable minerals
What is ore?
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