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Mining Process
Mining 101
Part One
Have you used any of these
lately?
School Bus?
Cereal?
Bicycle or Skateboard?
Car?
Alarm Clock?
Pencil or Computer?
Stove, Microwave, Cupboards,
Countertops?
Coins?
Video Games?
Musical Instruments?
Toothbrush and Toothpaste?
Cellphone
Flatware or Television?
Do the items in the
photographs have anything in
common?
If you guessed “rocks and
minerals,” you are right!
What about
people?
Mining Towns
Ketchikan, Alaska
Mining provides resources
to remote locations:
Transportation
Education
Housing
Jobs
For Example
Battle Mountain
Trades Program
Newmont Mining
Corporation
High school
students learned
building and selling
skills.
An African Project
AngloGold Ashanti
Create medical
programs improving
the quality of health for
people living in areas
near their mining
operations.
MINING 101
PART 3
There are two basic
types of Mining.
Underground Mining
Surface Mining
Surface Mining
Two-story high haul
Kennecott Utah Copper’s trucks can carry hundreds
Bingham Canyon Mine of tons of ore.
Surface mining
Land used by
Agriculture Washington D.C.
Land used by 80
Years of Mining
Nearly 50% has been
reclaimed.
Reclamation
Modern mines reclaim
and rehabilitate the land
during and after mining is
completed, returning the
land to useful purposes.
Reclaimed by Starvaggi Industries in
West Virginia.
Before After
ForkCreek Coal Mining Co.,
West Virginia
Before After
Homestake Mining Company’s
McLaughlin Gold Mine in California
Before After
MINING 101
THE END
Resources
AngloGold Ashanti, www.anglogold.co.za
Colorado Mining Association, www.coloradomining.org
Mining Basics, www.miningbasics.com
Minerals Education Coalition, www.MineralsEducationCoalition.org
Mining Engineering Magazine, SME, www.miningengineeringmagazine.com
National Mining Association, www.nma.org
Newmont Mining Corporation, www.newmont.com
Society of Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration, www.smenet.org
Women in Mining Education Foundation, www.womeninmining.org
U.S. Department of Agriculture, www.usda.gov
U.S. Geological Survey, www.usgs.gov
Christensen, John W. and Teri L., Global Science: Earth/Environmental
Systems Science, Kendall Hunt. Dubuque, Iowa. 7th ed. 2009