WAYS ON HOW SEPARATING

MIXTURES LIKE IN MINING AND

QUARRYING
LEANERS RECALL THE BENEFITS OF WATER REFILLING STATIONS IN THE
COMMUNITY.
What do you know about
mining and quarrying?
BENEFITS OF MINING/QUARRYING
1. Quarrying creates jobs in areas where there are limited opportunities.
2. There is a huge demand for the products of quarrying, such as building stone
and cement.
3. Quarrying provides income to local councils through taxation.
Good communications are needed for transporting the products of quarrying. As a
result many remote rural areas benefit from improved access.
4. Mining is a source of mineral resources important for maintaining and
upgrading living standards. It is the extraction of valuable and non-renewable
minerals or other geological substances from the earth. Materials acquired through
mining include metals, limestone, rock salt, gemstone, coal, oil, gravel, gold and
clay.
5. Mining is intended to obtain resources that cannot be produced through
agricultural activities or manufactured artificially in a laboratory or factory
 PRESENT THE SCENARIO OR PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED BY THE
LEARNERS (PROBLEM-BASED LEARNING). SEE ACTIVITY SHEET 8.2
EVALUATION

What are the processes of separating mixtures

that are used in mining and quarrying?
 Assignment

Conduct additional researches on the benefits

of mining and quarrying to the community in
relation to its processes dealing with separating of
mixtures.