Name: Year Level:

1. A system of bearing down coal by which compressed air, generated locally by

a portable compressor at 10,000 psi, is used in releasing cylinder, which is
placed in a hole drilled in the coal.
a. Hydrox c. Cardox
b. Clorox d. Airdox
2. In coal mine subsidence, this angle is assumed to bisect the angle of repose
of material.
a. Angle of repose c. Pit slope
b. Angle of draw d. Bench slope
3. The maximum slope at which a heap of any loose material will stand without
sliding or come to rest when poured on dumped in a pile or on a slope.
a. Angle of draw c. Angle of repose
b. Working slope d. Gradient slope
4. It is the portion or remainder of shot-hole found in a face often a blast has
been fired.
a. Bootleg c. Hang-fire
b. Misfire d. Mine-fire
5. A small tunnel driven horizontally into the rock at right angles to the face. It
has two or more cross-cuts driven from it parallel to the face.
a. Cross-cut c. Coyote dog-hole
b. Drift d. Slope
6. Sinking a number of boreholes each in different horizontal or vertical
direction from a single drill set-up.
a. Auger drilling c. Diamond drilling
b. Fan drilling d. deep well drilling
7. The process of injecting grout into crevices of rock, usually through a
borehole drilled into the rock.
a. Spraying c. Guniting
b. Grouting d. shotcreting
8. The rising of the floor of the mine caused by its being too soft to resist the
weight on the pillar.
a. Roof c. Heave
b. Floor d. Crown
9. The line defining the area in which open pit operation may be conducted to
obtain maximum amount of ore material and minimum amount of waste
material.
a. Optimum pit limit c. working slope
b. Bench slope d. Gradient
10. It is established by the government regarding the environmental impact
statement system.
a. P. D. 1899 c. P. D. 1586
b. R. A. 8558 d. P. D. 7942
11. It is a 25-year program which provides an operational link between the
environmental protection and enhancement commitments, under the
implementing rules and regulations of the Philippine Mining Act, as the
issued environmental compliance certificate under P. D. 1586
a. EWP c. AEPEP
b. ECC d. EPEP
12. It is the policy of the State to assure the availability, sustainability and
equitable distribution of the country’s natural resources through technically,
financially, socially, culturally and environmentally responsible manner
towards the generation of the wealth creation without sacrificing the needs
and demands of tomorrow’s generation.
a. sustainable development c. Pro-God
b. Pro-People d. responsible activity
13. It is a yearly program submitted at the start of each year which provides an
operational link between the environmental protection and enhancement
commitments, under the implementing rules and regulations of the P. D.
1586.
a. EWP c. AEPEP
b. ECC d. annual environmental
management plan
14. It is a mine organization, provided under the P. D. 7942, which will marshal
the corporate resources needed to implement the environmental
management programs of the company.
a. safety office c. CLRF
b. mine rescue team d. mine environmental
protection and enhancement office
15. The government official authorized to suspend mining /quarrying operations
in case of imminent danger to the environment, public, property and health.
a. DENR Secretary c. Under Secretary
b. President d. Regional Director of Mines
16. The line bureau of the DENR who is responsible for implementing laws, rules,
regulations and policies on the mineral resources management and
development.
a. EMB c. Mines and Geosciences Bureau
b. Bureau of Soil d. Bureau of Agriculture
17. The cash fund needed by the contractor in mine rehabilitation.
a. PhP 5,000,000.00 c. 10% of its annual gross
earning
b. above PhP 5,000,000.00 d. 5% net income annually
18. It is the stage in the environmental impact statement system where
information and assessment requirements are established to provide the
proponent with the scope of work of the environmental impact statement.
a. research c. scoping
b. feasibility d. technical paper
19. The document required of proponents describing the environmental impacts
of mitigation and enhancement measures for projects or undertakings
located in an environmentally critical area.
a. EWP c. multipartite monitoring team
b. EIS d. initial environmental examination
20. The deformation caused by stress.
a. dilation c . strain
b. distortion d. swell
21. A change in volume.
a. dilation c. strain
b. distortion d. swell
22. A change in form.
a. dilation c. strain
b. distortion d. swell
23. A deformation that is, if the stress is withdrawn, the body returns to its
original length, shape and size.
a. elastic c. resilient
b. plastic d. pliant
24. A law stating that strain is directly proportional to stress.
a. Ohm’s Law c. Faraday’s Law
b. Newton’s Law d. Hooke’s Law
25. A slow deformation under small stresses acting over a long period of time.
a. fatigue c . endurance limit
b. creep d. settlement
26. An angle measured in a vertical plane perpendicular to the strike of the
bedding plane.
a. slope c . dip
b. apparent dip d. plunge
27. The sides of a fold is called ______________________.
a. slopes c . limbs
b. legs d. walls
28. The line occupying the lowest part of a fold.
a. axis c . basin
b. thalweg d. trough
29. A fold that is concave upwards.
a. syncline c . piercing fold
b. anticline d. diapir fold
30. A qualified mine safety engineer in a certain mining company should be
a. licensed metallurgical engineer with two years experience in safety works
b. licensed mining engineer with one year experience in mining operation
c. licensed geology
d. safety inspector
31. The class “A” mine underground has at least of number _____ workers.
a. 150 c. 250
 b. 125 d. 200
32. The ideal number of mine rescue team should be
a. 3 c. 5
b. 9 d. 10
33. The required number of safety engineers in a class “A” mine.
a. Two full-time c. not necessary
b. One full-time d. at least two
34. The deputized safety inspector should have
a. five years experience safety works
b. at least ten years in service in the company
c. three years in underground
d. one year in safety work
35. How many times of power required in order developing twice the volume?
a. 7 times the power c. 5 times the power
b. 6 times the power d. 8 times the power
36. The fan law states that in order to develop twice the volume, how many
times the speed is required?
a. 2 times the velocity c. 4 times the velocity
b. 3 times the velocity d. 5 times the velocity
37. According to the fan laws, twice the volume develops how many times the
pressure?
a. 7 times the pressure c. 5 times the pressure
b. 6 times the pressure d. 4 times the pressure
38. It is a type of ventilation which is efficient and generally dependable.
a. Naturel ventilation c. Natural draft
b. Lime dusting d. Mechanical ventilation
39. The type of ventilation that utilizes the application of fans, vents, tubing’s
and baggings.
a. Natural ventilation c. Natural draft
b. Lime Dusting d. Mechanical Ventilation
40. The type of ventilation in which density change in air columns causes
alteration in natural draft pressure resulting to unpredictable air volume
flow.
a. Natural ventilation c. Natural draft
b. Lime Dusting d. Mechanical Ventilation
41. It results from pressure differential due to unequal densities or 2 air columns.
a. Natural Ventilation c. Relative density
b. Static Pressure d. Mechanical Ventilation
42. It is otherwise called as “natural draft”
a. Natural Ventilation c. Ventilation
b. Wind d. Pressure
43. It is the underground mine gas otherwise called as “laughing gas”.
a. Nitrogen Dioxide c. Methane
b. Hydrogen Sulfide d. Carbon Monoxide
44. It is the underground mine gas otherwise called as “stink damp”.
a. Sulfur dioxide c. Methane
b. Hydrogen Sulfide d. Carbon Monoxide
45. It is the theoretical and applied science of the mechanical behavior of rock
masses.
a. Rock mechanics c. Soil mechanics
b. Geo-mechanics d. Structural geology
46. It is concerned with the mechanical responses of all geological materials
including soil.
a. Mineral mechanics c. Geo-mechanics
b. Rock mechanics d. Soil mechanics
47. The concept that used to describe the intensity of internal forces set up in a
body under the influence of a set of applied surface force.
a. Force c. Stress
b. Strain d. Movement
48. It defines the shear stress components vanish, that is possible to select a
particular orientation for a plain such that it is subject to normal stress.
a. Stress Transformation c. Principal Stress
b. Stress Invariance d. Principal Plane
49. The way to describe qualitatively in which stress and strain are related in a
material under load.
a. Constitutive Behavior c. Poisson’s ratio
b. Elasticity d. stress
50. It ranks second to isotropic elasticity in the degree of expression of elastic
symmetry in the material behavior.
a. Transverse isotropic elasticity c. Modulus of Rigidity
b. Modulus of elasticity d. Poisson’s ratio
51. The term used to describe the intact rock between discontinuities.
a. Rock Mass c. rock material
b. Aperture d. filling material
52. It is the total in situ medium containing bedding planes, faults, joints and
other structural feature.
a. Rock material c. rock mass
b. Lithology d. structure
53. It is the nature and distribution of structural features within the rock mass.
a. Stress c. rock material
b. Geologic features d. Rock structure
54. The fractures on which identifiable shear displacement has taken place.
a. Spacing c. Persistence
b. Faults d. discontinuity
55. It is established by the government regarding the environmental impact
statement system.
a. P. D. 1899 c. P. D. 1586
b. R. A. 8558 d. P. D. 7942
August 2004, 2006, 2008. A quartz vein deposit was recently discovered in an existing
gold mine. The vein deposit was first intercepted by a diamond drill at elevation 850
meters. A second diamond drill hole also intercepted the same gold bearing deposit at
lower elevation of 820 meters but 30 meters further to the left (west). If the gold
bearing quartz vein deposit maintains uniform thickness throughout, what is the dip of
the vein?

A. 40 degrees B. 35 degrees C. 50 degrees D. 60 degrees

E. 45 degrees

Solution:

Surface 30m

DDH # 2 DDH # 1
30m

Dip Elev. 850m

30m Gold Vein

Elev. 820m

30m
Tan dip= -------
30m

tan dip = 1

Dip = 45 degrees

E.2 STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY:

August 1988. Three vertical drill holes were drilled all of which intersected a flat lying
orebody. The following data pertain:

Drill Coordinate Collar Depth of

Hole Northings Eastings Elevation Intersection
------ ------------- -------------- ------------- ----------------
 #1 N-900m E-150m 450m
150m
#2 N-50m E-350m 350m 250m
#3 N-550m E-950m 50m
550m

1. Determine the strike of the orebody.

2. Determine the dip of the orebody.

Solution:

Northings

1000
#1 (+300)
900
A
800
873.2
700 350

600

500 800
#3 (-500)
873.2
400

300

200

100
#2 (+100)
0
100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800 900
1000
Strike = due South

Dip = 450 East