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MINING
 Objectives
1. Explain mining.

2. Give examples of words associated with mining.

3. Explain the words with regard to mining.

4. Use the words in meaningful sentences.

 Is the extraction of valuable minerals or
Mining other geological materials from the Earth,
usually froman ore body, lode, vein, seam,
reef or placer deposit.

Exploitation of these deposits for 

raw material is based on the economic
 viability of investing in the equipment,
labor, and energy required to extract, refine
 and transport the materials found at the
mine to manufacturers who can use the
material.
Ores recovered by mining include metals,
coals, oil, shale, gemstones, limestone,
chalk, dimension stone, rock salt, potash,
gravel and clay.

Mining is required to obtain most materials

that cannot be grown through 
agricultural processes, or feasibly created 
artificially in a laboratory or factory.
 Words Associated with Mining
COALFACE
A. the part of a coal mine where coal is being dug under the ground
Example:
A. The miners had to crawl to reach the coalface.

COALFIELD
A. an area where there are layers of coal under the ground and is suitable for
mining
Example:
It was a royal preserve, and remains for the most part an uncultivated waste, but it
is also a rich coalfield, and there are mines in every direction.

COAL MINE
A. a place where coal is dug from under the ground
Example:
That certainly happened in my part of the world, where 
coal mine closures in the late 1980s affected virtually all
the miners. coal mine
 Words Associated with Mining
COLLIERY
A. a coal mine and the buildings around it
Example:
Cotton spinning and printing works, cotton-mill machinery works, dye-works and
chemical manufactures, and neighbouring collieries maintain the industrial
population.

FRACKING
A. a method of mining in which cracks are created in a type of rock called shale in
order to obtain gas, oil, or other substances that are inside it
Example:
The company had built an empire off finding and drilling natural gas discoveries as
the fracking boom rolled across the country..

GALLERY
A. an underground passage in a mine or cave
Example:
The streets of the town are narrow and vaulted and have been gallery
likened to the bewildering galleries of a coal pit.
 Words Associated with Mining
GEOENGINEERING
A. the discovery, development, production and use of resources that are found
below the earth’s surface
Example:
Because trees remove carbon dioxide from the air as they grow, tree planting can
be used as a geoengineering technique to reduce carbon from the atmosphere.

GOLDMINE
A. a place under the ground where there are rocks containing gold
Example:
Ruins of an extensive goldmine exist near Jebel Erba at a
short distance from the sea.

LODE
A. an amount (or deposit) of metal ore in the earth
Example:
The next most famous lode is that of Leadville, Colorado, goldmine
which from 1879 to 1889 yielded $147,834,186, chiefly in
silver and lead.
 Words Associated with Mining
PIT
A. a mine under the ground, especially a coal mine
Example:
The workings include a very large open pit mine,
an underground mine and four concentrators.
mine pit
OPENCAST
A. an opencast mine is a mine where coal is dug from a large hole in the ground,
rather than from a tunnel far under the ground
Example:
The bright white-and-dark-blue–striped areas on the right side of this image
are opencast coal mines in Midwestern Germany.

PAN
A. a large flat bowl used for separating gold from other substances 
in the ground using water
Example:
Before that, he had spent six months with Antipodean cousins,
in an old prospecting town, panning for gold.
pan (n/v)
 Words Associated with Mining
MINE (V.)
A. to dig a large hole or tunnel in the ground in order to get coal or gold from such a
hole or tunnel
Example:
Local people were hired to mine the gold.

MINERAL
A. a natural substance in the earth, for example coal, salt,
mineral
gold, or diamonds
Example:
The mineral wealth of the duchy is not inconsiderable.

MINESHAFT
A. a vertical tunnel in a mine with lifts inside that carry the
workers up and down
Example:
The old mineshaft had left a deep hole, dangerous to both
people and livestock.
mineshaft
 RELATED WORDS/PHRASES
Find out the meaning of the following:
A. pithead
B. prospect (verb)
C. prospector
D. quarry (noun/verb)
E. sink a mine
F. slag
G.slurry
H. vein (noun associated with mining)
I. bug dust
J. coke (noun associated with coal)
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