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Mining 101
Part One
School Bus?
Cereal?
Bicycle or Skateboard?
Car?
Alarm Clock?
Pencil or Computer?
Coins?
Video Games?
Musical Instruments?
Cellphone
Flatware or Television?
MINING 101
Part 2
A mine is a place
where rocks and
minerals of value are
extracted.
EXPLORATION.
A geologist is a
scientist who
studies the Earth
and its processes.
Environmental protection
throughout the mining process
What about
people?
Mining Towns
Ketchikan, Alaska
Mining provides resources
to remote locations:
Transportation
Education
Housing
Jobs
For Example
Battle Mountain
Trades Program
Newmont Mining
Corporation
High school
students learned
building and selling
skills.
An African Project
AngloGold Ashanti
Create medical
programs improving
the quality of health for
people living in areas
near their mining
operations.
MINING 101
PART 3
Underground Mining
Surface Mining
Surface Mining
Kennecott Utah Coppers
Bingham Canyon Mine
Surface mining
Albert Frei & Sons Sand
Quarry in Idaho Springs,
Colorado
Underground Mining
Nickel Miners
Underground Drill
Underground Mining
Longwall coal mining cuts a
slice from the long wall.
Miner Safety
Extraction
is the process of
removing mineral
resources from the
Earths crust.
Processing
Minerals are different so many
different types of processing are
needed to remove them from
the rock. Following are just a
few processes.
Milling
This rock contains gold.
Milling is the process of
separating the desired
mineral from the
unwanted rock (called
gangue.) See if you can
find the specks of gold.
Smelting
Smelting uses high heat
and chemicals to
remove base metals
and impurities from
concentrates. Smelting
furnaces can reach
temperatures above
1064Celcius. What
would that number be in
Fharenheit?
Leaching
Ariel view of a leach pad at
a copper mine in Morenci,
Arizona. These pads are the
size of several football
fields. This one is being
stacked with crushed ore.
Electrowinning
Starter sheets are
lowered into a
solution. An electrical
charge passes
through causing
copper ions to stick to
the sheets.
Land used by
Agriculture
Washington D.C.
Land used by 80
Years of Mining
Nearly 50% has been
reclaimed.
Reclamation
Modern mines reclaim and
rehabilitate the land during
and after mining is
completed, returning the
land to useful purposes.
After
After
After
MINING 101
THE END
Resources
AngloGold Ashanti, www.anglogold.co.za
Colorado Mining Association, www.coloradomining.org
Mining Basics, www.miningbasics.com
Minerals Education Coalition, www.MineralsEducationCoalition.org
Mining Engineering Magazine, SME, www.miningengineeringmagazine.com
National Mining Association, www.nma.org
Newmont Mining Corporation, www.newmont.com
Society of Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration, www.smenet.org
Women in Mining Education Foundation, www.womeninmining.org
U.S. Department of Agriculture, www.usda.gov
U.S. Geological Survey, www.usgs.gov
Christensen, John W. and Teri L., Global Science: Earth/Environmental
Systems Science, Kendall Hunt. Dubuque, Iowa. 7th ed. 2009