Lesson 6: Ore Minerals

What makes the extraction of valuable resources?

There are 6 commodities in mining resources.

Name 2 fluid resources

This is the oldest mine, dating back 40,000 years ago. And where?

This is an entire amount of geologic material of possible economic importance, discovered or not.

A resource that has been discovered with certainty and can be mined for a profit.

It changes based on mining, market price, and new technologies.

Associated with igneous rocks, particularly their hydrothermal fluids.

What happens when early-forming minerals crystallize and settle to the bottom of a cooling mass of magma?

What are the 4 types of hydrothermal ore deposits?

Extraction from the Earth’s surface.

Shafts and tunnels to access higher-grade or concentrated minerals at depth.

What are the key steps in Mineral Processing?

A key step in mineral processing, what is it? Takes a section that represents a whole that is required to be analyzed

A key step in mineral processing, what is it? Determines the valuable component of an ore. A Chemical, mineral, and particle size analysis.

A key step in mineral processing, what is it? Process of crushing and grinding to separate the precious components of the ore.

A key step in mineral processing, what is it? Extraction of precious minerals from raw sources.

A key step in mineral processing, what is it? Used the concentration to transform it to usable minerals. Filtration and sedimentation of suspension, and drying of solids from the suspension is included.

Converting concentrated ore to metal via heat or chemical leaching.

A large hole, common type of surface mining. Targets shallow, widely dispersed minerals by explosive blasting and drilling.

This is an iron ore used as red dye.

It can host deposits of copper, nickel, platinum, palladium, rhodium, and chromium.

It has an ultramafic-mafic composition

A single intrusion in South Africa known as the source of the world’s chromium commodity.