Metallurgy (Pre-Test)

1. Among the choices below, which is the most applicable in recovering sulfide minerals
such as pyrite?
a. Flotation
b. Carbon in pulp
c. Amalgamation
d. Cyanidation
2. What is the material that is returned to a ball mill in a closed circuit ball mill and
cyclone operation?
a. excess load
b. concentrate
c. circulating load
d. undersize
3. What are the reagents that accelerate the settling of particles by accumulating the fine
particles to form a bigger one, making then easier for thickening and filtration?
a. Depressants
b. Collectors
c. Frothers
d. Flocculants
4. A quantitative determination in which a metal or metals are separated from impurities
by fusion processes and weighed in order to determine the amount of gold present in
the sample?
a. Fire assaying
b. Chromatography
c. Metallography
d. Wet Assaying
5. The term used to describe the size reduction of rocks and minerals to desired sizes?
a. Comminution
b. Grinding
c. Crushing
d. Blasting
6. Which of the following segregate or classify crushed rocks according to sizes?
a. Hammer Mill
b. Vibrating Screen
c. Impact Crusher
d. Flotation Cell
7. What is the term commonly used to describe the product that does not pass thru the
screen?
a. Oversize
b. Undersize
c. Slime
d. None of the above
8. What grinding media is most applicable in grinding relatively soft materials?
a. Steel balls
b. Iron Wood
c. Steel Rods
d. Pebbles
9. Which of the following equipment does not separate materials by specific gravity
differences?
a. Jigs
b. Pinched sluices
c. Shaking table
d. Drum Separator
10. A stockpile where crushed ore from the primary crusher is stored before it undergoes
secondary crushing?
a. Coarse Ore Bin / Coarse Stock Pile
b. Fine Ore Bin
c. Leach Pad
d. Crushing Stockroom
11. This flotation process immediately recovers as many of the economic minerals as
possible in one flotation.
a. Heavy mineral separation
b. Bulk flotation
c. Differential flotation
d. Gravity Concentration
12. Which of the following statements is true?
a. Grade is directly proportional to recovery.
b. Grade is approximately inversely related to recovery.
c. Grade is not related with recovery.
d. None of the above
13. What is the ore beneficiation process that makes use of a liquid medium whose
density falls between the density of the minerals to be floated and depressed.
a. Heavy Media Separation
b. Centrifugal Concentration
c. Slurry Separation
d. Hydro-separation
14. What do you call a mineral recovery process that dissolves gold dust in a mercury?
a. Mercerization
b. Leaching
c. Retorting
d. Amalgamation
15. What is the percentage of the total metal contained in the ore that is recovered in the
concentrate?
a. Recovery
b. Grade
c. Ratio of Concentration
d. Enrichment Ratio
16. Small scale miners usually perform ________ to separate the gold from the gangue.
a. CIP
b. CIL
c. Panning
d. Amalgamation
17. Platinum is widely used in which of the following industries?
a. Currency making
b. Aviation industry
 c. Foundry
d. Electronics industry
18. One of the problems in recovering copper from an enargite ore is the removal of
________.
a. Arsenic
b. mercury
c. uranium
d. titanium
19. Which of the following is not a pyrometallurgical process?
a. Roasting
b. Smelting
c. Cyanidation
d. Refining
20. The product of dissolving gold in mercury is called
a. Dore
b. Slag
c. Amalgam
d. Filter cake
21. A solution that contains the valuable mineral is called
a. Leach tank feed
b. Stripped solution
c. Lixiviant
d. Pregnant solution
22. The precipitating agent in the Merrill Crowe process of precipitating gold from pregnant
solution is
a. Zinc dust
b. Iron dust
c. Coal dust
d. Silver dust
23. In a closed circuit with high capacity ball mills, what is the most commonly used size
classification equipment?
a. Attritioners
b. Hydrocyclones
c. Jigs
d. Vibrating Screens
24. The concentrates produced by a certain company contain 48% chromite, 0.25% silica,
6% manganese dioxide, 18% iron oxide, 11% alumina nd 0.03% sulfure. What is the
Cr:Fe ratio in the 5,000MT concentrates if the moisture content is 8%.
a. 1.35:1
b. 2.35:1
c. 3.35:1
d. 4.35:1
25. Which of the following is used to grind materials of low work index by using minimal
grinding medium, which uses the material itself as the grinding medium?
a. Autogenous mill
b. Ball mill
c. SAG mills
d. Rod mill
26. An ore beneficiation process that takes advantage of the differences in specific gravity
a. Flotation
b. Shaking table
c. Riffle belt
d. Trammel
27. What is the acid used to separate silver from gold in fire assaying?
a. Salicylic acid
b. Sulfuric acid
c. Nitric acid
d. Hydrochloric acid
28. A dewatering equipment that allows the water to overflow and equipped with a rake at
the bottom?
a. Thickener
b. Filter
c. Classifier
d. None of the above
29. In pyrometallurgy, the reduction that makes use os a reducing agent, commonly a fuel
that is a source of carbon to change oxidation state of the metal is called
a. Calcining
b. Refining
c. Roasting
d. Smelting
30. What is the term used to describe the speed of the ball mill rotation at which maximum
grinding efficiency is attained?
a. Critical speed
b. Maximum speed
c. Optimum speed
d. Speed limit
31. Which of the following is not a Comminution Theory?
a. Rittinger’s Law
b. Griffith’s Law
c. Kick’s Law
d. Bond’s Law
32. What is the term commonly used to describe the product that passes thru the screen?
a. Oversize
b. Undersize
c. Slime
d. None of the above
33. Cupels used in cupellation if fire assaying are made of
a. Bone ash
b. asphalt
c. Talc
d. platinum
34. What do you call the sampling process of piling ground sample into pyramid shape
then dividing it into 4 equal parts, then taking the two opposite parts as the
representative sample?
a. Grab sampling
b. Inquartation
 c. Splitting
d. Coning and quartering
35. Which of the following physical properties reflect the capacity of rocks to absorb
water?
a. Fluidity
b. Porosity
c. Hydrophobicity
d. Elasticity
36. In quantifying the purity of gold, 1000 Fineness is equivalent to ___K.
a. 18 c. 26
b. 24 d. 14
37. In a hydrocyclone operation, which of the following products represent the coarse
material?
a. Underflow
b. Overflow
c. Slimes
d. None of the above
38. It refers to the ease with which materials can be comminuted
a. Ore grindability
b. Optimum mesh of grind
c. Degree of liberation
d. None of the above
39. Which of the following reagents is the cheapest and most commonly used depressant
in copper ores where pyrite is the principal associated sulfide?
a. Bentonite
b. Gypsum
c. Feldspar
d. Lime
40. What is the most popular size classification equipment?
a. Vibrating screen
b. Trommels
c. Reichert spirals
d. Shaking Table
41. A copper flotation plant showed the following metallurgical data:
Tons Feed 20,000 DMT
Tons Concentrate 400 DMT
Grade of Concentrate 25% Cu
Grade of Tails 0.02% Cu
What is the plant recovery?
a. 66.2%
b. 96.2%
c. 86.2%
d. 56.2%
42. What is the most commonly used furnace in fire assaying?
a. Muffle furnace
b. Blast furnace
c. Reverbatory furnace
d. Baking oven
43. A sampling procedure that allows the sample to pass thru an equipment that divides
the sample into two equal quantities?
a. Segregation
b. Dividing
c. Splitting
d. Coning and quartering
44. What is the smelting process currently used by PASAR?
a. Mitsubishi Process
b. Outokumpu Oy Process
c. Bayer Process
d. NICOR process
45. What is the most common neutralization/treatment done by mining industries with their
acid mine drainage?
a. Lime treatment
b. Sodium Hydroxide Treatment
c. Reverse Osmosis
d. Treatment with Sodium Hypochlorite
46. Which of the following reagents is best used in dissolving gold from finely ground
ores?
a. Sulfuric acid
b. Cyanide
c. Boric acid
d. Hydrochloric acid
47. What is the next procedure after obtaining a “dore”?
a. Fusion
b. Weighing
c. Annealing
d. Parting
48. A dore is made up of
a. Gold and silver
b. Gold and lead
c. Silver only
d. Silver and lead
49. A grinding equipment that uses steel materials of various diameters but of uniform
lengths as grinding medium?
a. Rod mill
b. Ball mill
c. Tube mills
d. Autogenous mill
50. a procedure where small volume of aqueous solution is made to contact the loaded
organic phase, the desire end-phase being the transfer of the metal species back to
aqueous phase
a. stripping
b. refining
c. electrolysis
d. adsorption