Mining Assignment ST11 NAME: ______________________________

1. What type of ores are recovered by mining?

2. How old is the oldest known mine in the archeological record?

3. What caused the silver crisis of 1465 in medieval Europe?

4. What two limitations caused Canada’s mining industry to grow more slowly than The US mining industry in the early 20^th century?

5. What is the first step in the mining process?

6. What is the last step in the mining process?

7. What are the two common excavation types that mining techniques can be divided into?

8. Which excavation type is more common?

9. What are the two general categories of materials that targets can be divided into?

10. Which is more difficult, processing ore from a placer mine or processing ore from a lode mine?

11. What is smelting?

12. What are some of the environmental issues that can arise from mining?

13. What are tailings?