Juan Cruz Margaride

5to B ECONOMÍA

Environmental Management
1. State the basic details about The Yanacocha gold mine such as location, size,
minerals and type of mine.

2. Draw two large spider diagrams and on them label the different ways in which The
Yanacocha gold mine has impacted positively and negatively the environment and
people (take the information from the case study) Add to your diagrams more
examples of advantages and disadvantages that you have studied.
3. Explain what is meant by landscaping old quarries and surface mines. Describe the
methods used for landscaping an old mine.
4. Yanacocha Gold Mine restoration. Suggest a project to restore this mine.

5. Describe with examples the characteristics of igneous, sedimentary and

metamorphic rocks.

Answers:
1. The Yanacocha is a gold mine locate in the Cajamarca region of Peru, consider
to be the fourth largest gold mine in the world, covering 535 square miles. In
this mine, what is found, in terms of minerals, are gold and silver. This mine is
an open pit mine, because it is a surface mining where a huge portion of earth
is removed in layers forming a big hole.
2.
Positively things Negatively things
Provides works Local water sources have become
contaminated
Improve the economy Their traditional medicinal plants
have declined
Tourism The influx of job seekers to the area
has increased crime
Can increase the electricity capacity Farmers have felt pressure to sell
using renewable energy their lands to the mine

3. To landscape a surface mine is to fill the hole that you do for the mining,
restoring the views that the place have before you do the mine and which is
better, improve that space by planting trees, bushes and grasses.
Some methods that are used to landscape an old mine are the landfill, where
the hole is fill with a sort of compact rubbish put it in layers.
Then appears the biomediation, which is a method that involves the use of
natural organisms to remove pollutants in soil of water, by enhancing the
growth of pollution-eating microbes.
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5to B ECONOMÍA

And finally the landscaping, that means vegetation and wildlife regeneration
through nutrients addition, planting trees, bushes and grasses so that the land
looks similar to the surrounding landscape untouched by mining processes.
These changes could benefit wildlife or provide recreational opportunities to
people
4. One project to restore the mine could be by mainly remove all the machinery
that was used for mining, and then in the space that remains, I would make a
fresh water lake, because it is something that scarce a lot in Peru.
5. The igneous rock are rocks made of cooled magma, one example is the granite
that is form by fire. Then the sedimentary rocks are form by small particles
cemented by pressure, sandstone could be an example, which is form by
pressure. And finally, the metamorphic are the sedimentary rocks transformed
by heat and pressure throw the time. example of metamorphic?

Excellent job!