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    Learning Activity Sheet How Ores Are Found, Mined and Processed For Human Use

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    1. The document describes how ores are located, mined, and processed for human use through various activities. Core samples are taken to locate ore bodies, and factors like size, depth, cost, and environment are considered before developing a site. 2. Several mining methods are described, including open cut mining, dredge mining, underground mining, leach mining, and area strip mining. Mining can impact the environment through emissions, waste runoff, construction impacts, and high energy use. 3. The reflection notes that mining is important because some materials cannot be grown, and expresses interest in learning more about how mineral processing affects the environment.

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    1. The document describes how ores are located, mined, and processed for human use through various activities. Core samples are taken to locate ore bodies, and factors like size, depth, cost, and environment are considered before developing a site. 2. Several mining methods are described, including open cut mining, dredge mining, underground mining, leach mining, and area strip mining. Mining can impact the environment through emissions, waste runoff, construction impacts, and high energy use. 3. The reflection notes that mining is important because some materials cannot be grown, and expresses interest in learning more about how mineral processing affects the environment.

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    1. The document describes how ores are located, mined, and processed for human use through various activities. Core samples are taken to locate ore bodies, and factors like size, depth, cost, and environment are considered before developing a site. 2. Several mining methods are described, including open cut mining, dredge mining, underground mining, leach mining, and area strip mining. Mining can impact the environment through emissions, waste runoff, construction impacts, and high energy use. 3. The reflection notes that mining is important because some materials cannot be grown, and expresses interest in learning more about how mineral processing affects the environment.

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    Learning Activity Sheet How Ores Are Found, Mined and Processed For Human Use

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    1. The document describes how ores are located, mined, and processed for human use through various activities. Core samples are taken to locate ore bodies, and factors like size, depth, cost, and environment are considered before developing a site. 2. Several mining methods are described, including open cut mining, dredge mining, underground mining, leach mining, and area strip mining. Mining can impact the environment through emissions, waste runoff, construction impacts, and high energy use. 3. The reflection notes that mining is important because some materials cannot be grown, and expresses interest in learning more about how mineral processing affects the environment.

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    Name: Leanne Cristelle P.

    Dela Cruz Grade Level: 11


    Section: Viking Date: October 26, 2020

    Learning Activity Sheet


    How ores are found, mined and processed for Human Use

    Activity 1: Cupcake Core Sampling


    1.

    2. Geologists are able to locate ore bodies through gathering and observing core
    samples. If a valuable amount of ore is gathered from the collected samples then the
    location can become a possible site.
    3. Core samples are taken instead of cutting mountains open when locating ore minerals
    is due to economic and ecological reason.
    4. 1. Size 6. Cost of Developing
    2. Depth 7. Demand
    3. Geographical 8. Price
    4. Cost of Transporting 9. Landowners
    5. Environment 10. Requirements

    Activity 2: Mining Methods


    1.
    Type of Where is it Minerals mined
    Explanation of process
    Mining used? this way
    Open-cast mines are dug on
    Deposits of benches, which describe
    vertical levels of the hole.
    commercially
    These benches are usually on
    Open Cut useful minerals Gold, Nickel, four to sixty meter intervals,
    Mining or rocks are Copper depending on the size of the
    machinery that is being used.
    found near the
    Many quarries do not use
    surface benches, as they are usually
    shallow.
    Gold, Tin
    (cassiterite), A scoop lifts material up on a
    Aluminum conveyor belt, and the mineral
    Dredge Underwater (bauxite), Mineral is removed on board the barge.
    The unwanted material is then
    Mining deposits Sands (ilmenite, dropped back into the water
    rutile, zircon), table using another conveyor
    Diamond deposits belt.

    and Rock Salt


    It includes ventilation shafts to
    When the
    clear toxic fumes from drilling
    deposit is too and blasting; escape routes;
    deep for access shafts to lower workers
    Underground surface mining and equipment; ore-transport
    Coal, Uranium tunnels; recovery shafts to
    Mining or there is a carry excavated ore to the
    restriction on surface; and communication
    the use of the systems to send information
    back and forth between the
    surface land.
    surface and the depths
    Takes place in
    nature, where The leaching process in mining
    Leach Mining the rocks are Gold, Uranium is carried out either as heap
    dissolved by leaching or insitu leaching.

    water
    Area Strip When the Coal, Lignite It is done either through Area
    Mining mineral is near Stripping extracts ore over a
    large, flat terrain in long strips.
    The overburden of rocks and
    soil is dropped in the previous
    strip so that long gaps aren’t
    left in the earth after mining is
    complete. Contour mining is a
    version of strip mining that
    follows the contours of
    the surface. outcrops and hilly terrains.
    Usually, the mineral seam
    follows the contour of the
    outcrop, and the overburden is
    removed carefully along the
    seam in much smaller and
    custom shaped excavations
    rather than long strips.

    2.
    Ecological Aspect Economical Aspect

    Though it could still pose It is generally the cheapest


    ecological risk, the way to extract ore
    recovery rate through
    progressive Type of Mining

    rehabilitation is faster Open Cut Mining


    than the underground
    mining
    Workers are not subject to death from
    mine cave in accidents and are not exposed
    to explosive poison gas dangers
    Social Aspect

    Activity 3: Mining and the Environment


    Guide Questions
    1. Mineral processing is the process of extracting valuable minerals from their ores and
    is also known as beneficiation.

    2. Size reduction through a series of crushing and grinding then mineral recovery
    through flotation.
    3. It is the process of separation small particles of various materials by treatment with
    chemicals in water in order to make some particles adhere to air bubbles and rise to
    the surface for removal while others remain in the water.
    4.
    Aspects of the
    Mining Activities that may impact the Environment
    Environment
    Air Emission of dust from haul roads; particulate matter
    transported by wind as a result to excavation, blasting and
    transportation of materials; exhaust emissions from mobile
    sources and heavy equipment; gas emissions from mineral
    processing.
    Water Mine waste runoff to water storage, tailings storage.
    Land Tailings storage, construction to access roads, ground
    excavation, potential ore exploration.
    Energy The whole mining activity from exploration and excavation
    to processing and distribution requires a huge amount of
    energy.
    Waste Management Mine waste runoff, tailings storage, progressive
    rehabilitation

    Reflection
    1. I learned that mining is of critical importance because some materials cannot be
    grown, also ores are naturally occurring materials that can be profitably mined.
    2. I enjoyed most on describing how ore materials are found, mined and processed for
    human use
    3. I want to learn more on how mineral processing affects the environment.

    Learning Activity Sheet


    How Fossils Are Formed

    Activity 1
    Guide Questions
    1. Fossil fuels are made from decomposing plants and animals. These fuels are found in
    the Earth’s crust and contain carbon and hydrogen, which can be burned for energy.
    Coal, oil, and natural gas are examples of fossil fuels.
    2. Coal, oil, and natural gas are examples of fossil fuels. Coal is a material usually found
    in sedimentary rock deposits where rock and dead plant and animal matter are piled
    up in layers. More than 50 percent of a piece of coal’s weight must be from fossilized
    plants. Oil is originally found as a solid material between layers of sedimentary rock,
    like shale. This material is heated in order to produce the thick oil that can be used to
    make gasoline. Natural gas is usually found in pockets above oil deposits. It can also
    be found in sedimentary rock layers that don’t contain oil. Natural gas is primarily
    made up of methane.

    Fossil Fuel Pizza

    Coal
    Organic sedimentary rock formed from
    plant remains deposited in swamps and
    marshes. Coal is a material usually found
    in sedimentary rock and can be found in
    fossilized plants.
    Petroleum

    Petroleum is formed when large Natural Gas


    quantities of dead organisms, It is a gas issuing from the
    mostly zooplankton and algae, earth’s crust through
    are buried underneath natural openings or bored
    sedimentary rocks and wells. It is usually found in
    subjected to both heat and pockets above oil deposits.
    pressure. It can also be found in
    sedimentary rock layers
    that don’t contain oil.

    Fossil Fuels – True or False?


    1. 
    2. 
    3. 
    4. 
    5. 
    6. 
    7. 

    Activity 2: Fossil Fuel Mystery (The genesis of petroleum and gas)


    Complete Me!
    1.
    1. Crude oil, coal and natural gas are fossil fuels.
    2. These are Fossil fuels that have formed over millions of years.
    3. They are formed by the action of temperature/heat and pressure in the absence of
    oxygen.
    4. They are made from the dead remains of plants and animals.

    2.

    Formation of Oil Formation of Coal

    Zooplankton, algae Swampy wetlands


    Buried underneath Soil
    Sedimentary rocks Mining process
    Kerogen Peat
    Heat, weathering, oil Water, heat, coal
    Pores
    What do we use coal and oil
    Underground reservoir
    for?
    Fuel

    3. G. The story of oil and gas begins with planktonic organisms living in the ocean
    (or in lakes).

    L. Zooplankton eat phytoplankton (algae) that use the Sun’s energy to produce
    organic matter and energy through photosynthesis.

    E. As the planktonic organisms die their remains begin to settle to the sea floor
    under anoxic conditions (without oxygen).
    C. Over time, layer upon layer of marine sediments accumulate, containing the
    remains of planktonic organisms.

    K. Thick sequences of sediments are deposited, and the planktonic organisms


    buried in them are heated and compressed until the organic matter begins to
    change into kerogen, a solid, waxy organic material.

    H. With the high temperatures and pressures of greater depth of burial, the
    kerogen begins to change into hydrocarbons.

    D. With even more heat and pressure, the hydrocarbons are broken down into
    petroleum (oil) and natural gas.

    J. The petroleum and natural gas migrate into porous and permeable sedimentary
    rocks such as sandstone, which serves as a petroleum reservoir rock.

    A. Oil floats on water, and gas is even lighter than oil, so petroleum and natural
    gas move upward within the reservoir rock until they are stopped by an
    impermeable sedimentary layer such as shale, which forms a trap.

    I. More and more petroleum and natural gas accumulate and become concentrated
    F. Wells
    in the areforming
    trap, drilled an
    intooilthe ground in the oil field to extract the petroleum, which
    field.
    is called crude oil.
    M. Geologists use various tools, such as seismic surveys, to study Earth to locate
    B.
    oil The
    fieldscrude oil is
    beneath thetransported
    ground. If atolocation
    a refinery, where
    seems it is separated
    promising, drilling by
    maydistillation
    begin.
    and other processes into fuels such as gasoline, butane, kerosene, liquid
    petroleum gas, jet fuel, diesel fuel, fuel oil, and chemicals used to manufacture
    plastics.

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