Lec 1 - Introduction To Metalliferous Ore Deposit Flashcards

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Strives to improve genetic models of ore deposits, it provides insight into unique geological models of ore formation

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Economic Geology

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Practical mission of economic Geology

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Provision of metals and minerals that society requires

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3
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Ectraction of valuable minerals or other geologic materials from earth

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Mining

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Major roles in the life cycle of a mine

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  1. Lead in search of new mineral deposits
  2. Contributes to economic and technical evaluations
  3. Continuously updates mineral reserves
  4. Aids in rehab after mine closure
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5
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  • Natural resources in the form of mineral deposits

- any volume of rock containing an enrichment of one or more minerals

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Mineral Resources

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Factors affecting the size available reserve relative to total resource

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  1. Commodity price or value
  2. Exploration
  3. Technological developments
  4. Changes in regulatory requirement
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7
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Determine the size of reserve and whether the mineral deposit is economic. This is intimately linked with demand and supply.

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Cost vs. price

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8
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Natural concentration of useful metals, minerals, or rock, which can be economically exploited

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Ore deposits

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9
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Refers to concentrations that are small or too low-grade for mining

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Occurence/Mineralization

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10
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A natural material from which valuable or useful metal occurs at a sufficient concentration, relative to average rocks, to make it economically worth mining

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Ore

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11
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Non valuable minerals that occurs along with the ore

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Gangue

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12
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Cu

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Chalcocite
Chalcopyrite
Bornite
Azurite
Malachite
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13
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Fe

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Magnetite

Hematite

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14
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Sn

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Cassiterite

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15
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Pb

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Galena

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16
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Hg

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Cinnabar

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17
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Zn

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Sphalerite

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18
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Al

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Kaolinite

Corundum

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19
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Cr

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Chromite

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20
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Ni

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Pentlandite

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21
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Ti

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Ilmenite

Rutile

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22
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W

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Scheelite

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23
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Mo

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Molybdenite

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24
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Mg

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Dolomite

Magnesite

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25
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Mn

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Pyrolusite

Rhodochrosite

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26
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Early humans used _____ and ______ as pigments

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Cinnabar and hematite

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27
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The first large scale mineral industry, it was used by babylonians and egyptians as building materials

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Clay

28
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Made use of various minerals including some as tints for paints

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Paleolithic man

29
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Man that is acquainted with gold and copper

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Neolithic man

30
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Oldest form of mining is for

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Gemstones and decorative stones

31
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When man began hammering tools out of native copper

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Copper age

32
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When mesopotamians learn that adding tin to copper made it harder

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Bronze Age

33
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Copper was discovered in?

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18,000 B.C.

34
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Earth + Water + Sun Rays = metals

  • grow through accumulation of dark exhalations
  • pure, serene heavenly rays from fixed stars gave birth to bright and precious stones
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Aristotelian View

35
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Noted in the occurence of gold in quartz veins

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Herodotus

36
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A pupil of aristotle described 16 minerals grouped as metals, stones, and earth

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Theophrastas

37
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He wrote naturalis historia

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Pliny the Elder

38
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He grouped the minerals as stones, sulfurs, metals, and salts during the dark ages

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Avicenna

39
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Th golden fleece and the art of making gold

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Frascatus, thomas, norton, auerelio augerelli

40
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How does the fire from the center of the earth was made

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Rays from heavenly bodies collide from one another to for, heat inside the earth

41
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Soft plastic material from which metals come from

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Gur

42
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Sun - Gold
Moon - Silver
Mercury - Quicksilver
Venus - copper
Mars - iron
Jupiter - tin
Saturn - lead
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Planets are the creative influence that developed metals

43
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Fire at the center of earth

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Johann Jochim Becher

44
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True or False: ore should be more abundant going nearer the central fire

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True

45
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The Golden Tree
Mineral veins are offshoots from an immense trunk which goes down int o the depths of the earth and on account of its great distance from the surface, cannot be reached by mining.

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Johan Gottlob Lehman

46
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He describe pyrites in a clay bed

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Bernard Palissy

47
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Hidtory of metals, 1671

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John Webster

48
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A discourse of natural bathes and mineral waters, 1669

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Edward Jorden

49
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Earth by a metallic plastic principle latent in it, may be in the processe of time changed into a metal (the sceptical chymist, 1661)

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Rober Boyle

50
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Ore develops in suitable

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Matrices

51
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Nature strives after the better

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Aristotle

52
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The heat inside the earth is not equal in intensity everywhere, and the heat “matures” metals

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Fracastus

53
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Metals gradually matured by heat, passing through successive froms and eventually becoming gold

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Ludivicus

54
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He wrote the earliest book on ore deposits

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Ulrich Rulein von Kalbe (Calbus)

55
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  • natural heat which disintegrates and wastes away metals and specially ores when they reached their perfection
  • vapor or exhalation which rises from the veins
  • bluish lambent flame often associated with sulphurous vapor, which may be taken as indisputable evidence of the presence of mineral veins
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Witterung

56
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The country rock and mineral veins that cut it, with the ores and accompanying gangue minerals, were created by God just as we see them at present

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The vulgar opinion by Franciscus Rueus

57
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Who led the odern thinking in geology that began in the 16th century?

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Agricola and Palissy

58
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Father of economic geology who wrote the book De re ametallica Libri Xll

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Georgius Agricola

59
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2 fundamental principles in ore deposits

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  • “ore channel” are principally secondary features, younger than the country rock
  • ore has been deposited from solutions in these channels
60
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Who translated the book De Re Metallica in 1912

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Herbert Hoover and Lou Henry Hoover

61
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2 kinds of water according to agricola

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  • condensed steam

- rain water

62
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Ores are product of condensation from vapors asscending through fissures

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Nicolas Steno

63
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Formed as high temperature replacement bodies near the border zones of igneous intrusive

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Pyrometasomatic Deposit

64
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Ores formed by hot, aqueous solution

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Hydrothermal Deposits

65
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Formed at great depths and at high temperature

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Hypothermal

66
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Ores formed at intermediate depth and temperatures

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Mesothermal

67
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Ores formed at shallow depth and relatively low temperatures

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Epithermal