Mining
A mine that looks like a hole in the ground with rings called benches.
What is an open-pit mine?
Complete the sentence: igneous rocks come from _____________
what is lava, volcanos?
Resource
What is a stock or supply of money, materials, staff, and other assets?
Name an active mine in Nunavik.
What is the Raglan mine?
The year Raglan Mine started production.
What is 1996?
A mine that uses tunnels and shafts to extract ores.
What is an underground mine?
Complete the sentence: sedimentary rocks come from _______________
What is the ocean?
Concentration
What is a close gathering of people or things. (Alternate) The action or power of focusing one's attention or mental effort.
The year Makivik Corporation was created.
What is in 1975?
The year Raglan Mine is scheduled to close.
What is 2026?
Name two types of facilities found in underground mines.
What are access ramps, drifts and shafts?
Complete the sentence: metamorphic rocks come from a mix of _____________________
What are igneous and sedimentary rocks?
Deposit
What is a layer or body of accumulated ores? (Mining)
What is putting money in an account? (Banking)
The typical week for the workers of Raglan mine.
What is they stay in the village, work 12 hours a day, 7 days a week for 3 weeks straight and then go home?
Name two things necessary to opening a mine. (Tip: it's not money or workers)
What are a deposit of ores and high demand for the ores?
Name two transportation methods we use to carry ores.
What are trucks, trains and ships?
They're made of Nickel.
What are money and alloys (stainless steel)
Prospecting
What is to look for, to search for, to look for ore deposits? (Mining)
The name of the Switzerland based mining company exploiting the Raglan mine.
What is Xstrata, bonus for Swiss-Xstrata PLC?
Name reasons a mine might close. (3 out of the 7)
What are: the deposit is all gone, better ore elsewhere, easier access, cheap labor, lower taxes, less rules and less environmental law?
The region in Quebec where there is the most active mines. (Tip: it's not Nunavik)
What is Rouyn-Noranda?
They're made of Copper.
What are electric wires, batteries and cookware?
Peninsula
a piece of land almost surrounded by water or projecting out into a body of water.
It is the main revenue of the mining industry in Nunavik. (Tip: it's not the Raglan mine)
What is prospecting for new mines?
Name the effects on a region from the shutdown of a mine. (3 of the 5)
What are: job loss, money loss, foreclosure of other businesses, loss of tax revenue, rehabilitation needs on the territory and market flux?