Minerals
What is common between are Aluminium, Cobalt, Manganese, Platinum?
They are native element minerals.
Removing (stripping) surface vegetation, dirt, and, if necessary, layers of bedrock in order to reach buried ore deposits is called ...
Surface mining
What types of environmental effects do you know?
Erosion, sinkholes, loss of biodiversity, contamination of soil, groundwater and surface water by chemicals from mining processes etc.
What is ESA?
Endangered Species Act
What is the name of a natural rock or sediment that contains one or more valuable minerals, typically containing metals, that can be mined, treated and sold at a profit?
Ore
Surface mining techniques include:
open-pit mining, quarrying, strip mining, mountaintop removal, landfill mining .
A burning of an outcrop or underground coal seam is called
Coal fire
What is CWA?
Clean Water Act
What are gangue minerals?
Minerals with no commercial value.
What type of mining consists of digging tunnels or shafts into the earth to reach buried ore deposits?
Underground mining
What is an acid rock drainage?
The outflow of acidic water from metal mines or coal mines.
What is SDWA?
Safe Drinking Water Act
What is placer deposit?
Natural concentration of heavy minerals caused by the effect of gravity on moving particles.
What is in-situ leaching?
A mining process used to recover minerals such as copper and uranium through boreholes drilled into a deposit, in situ.
What are effects of mine pollution on humans?
There are many diseases that can come from the pollutants that are released into the air and water during the mining process.
What is SMCRA?
Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act
The generally recognized standard body for the definition and nomenclature of mineral species is called
The International Mineralogical Association (IMA)
What is an odd word?
Bulldozers - gravel bikes - drills - explosives
gravel bikes
What are tailings?
The materials left over after the process of separating the valuable fraction from the uneconomic fraction (gangue) of an ore.
What is an odd word?
The Ministry of Natural Resources and Ecology - The Federal Agency of Subsoil Use - The Federal Supervisory Servicefor Nature Management - The Ministry of Agriculture
The Ministry of Agriculture