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A flammable liquid mix, powers most car?

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Gasoline

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Craters appearing in Siberia without explanation?

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Sinkholes

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3
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Apiarists’ hazard?

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BEESTING

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Gravity pull that light can’t escape?

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BLACKHOLE

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5
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Belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter?

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ASTEROID

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Row of icons on a computer screen?

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TOOLBAR

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Program used to study the outer solar system?

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Voyager

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8
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Meteorite bruises on a planet?

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CRATER

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Semi-solid, greasy thick oil; medical use?

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Ointment

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10
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New _____, spacecraft sent to Pluto?

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Horizons

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Piece of an asteroid after an impact on a planet?

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METEORITE

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This part of an URL can be .com, .gov, or .edu?

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DOMAIN

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13
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Computer electronic circuit on small plate?

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MICROCHIP

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14
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Where the highest mountains are?

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HIMALAYAS

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15
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Transparent quartz?

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CRYSTAL

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This element makes up 78% of the air you breathe?

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NITROGEN

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17
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Solar system’s galaxy

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MILKYWAY

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18
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Polished stone; glass ball used in games?

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MARBLE

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19
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Plant waste essential to human life?

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OXYGEN

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20
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Any of a number of hardware devices connected to a CPU?

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PERIPHERAL

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21
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Software provided at a minimal cost to users who are on their honor to send in payment to the programmer?

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SHAREWARE

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Uses pictures and words to represent ideas, choices, functions, etc.?

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GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE

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Used to analyze Au and Cyanides.

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CHIDDY METHOD

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Rock portion of an orebody or vein.

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SHOOT

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Most abundant metal in the earth.
IRON
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Means an array of electrical strain gage.
ROSETTE
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Distance of earth to moon.
1.25 LIGHT SEONDS : travel time. 186000 mi/second or 300000km/second
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Earth to sun.
LIGHT-MINUTES
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Solar system
LIGHT-HOURS ACROSS
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Earth to the nearest star beyond the sun.
4 LIGHT YEARS
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State of balance in the earth’s crust.
ISOSTASY
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Collective name of Sima.
OCEANIC CRUST
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Collective name of Sial.
CONTINENTAL CRUST
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Derived from the mantle.
BASALT
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Stable slabs.
SHIELD/CRATON
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Measures magnitude, or energy released.
RICHTER SCALE
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Move through ground as waves move through the sea.
RAYLEIGH WAVES
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Silicate-rich.
STONY METEORITES
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Iron with nickel.
IRON METEORITES
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Nickel-Iron & Silicates.
STONY IRON
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Largest lake
CASPIAN SEA
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Deepest lake
LAKE BAIKAL IN EASTERN SIBERIA
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Highest waterfalls
ANGELS
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Soil scientist, have many ways of classifying soils.
PEDOLOGISTS
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Invented dynamite.
Alfred NOBEL
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Not applicable to Porphyry type deposit.
GRID PATTERN
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Standard distance of holes in drilling porphyry copper deposits.
75 METERS
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Used to locate and recover detached or lost drill bits at the bottom of the drill hole.
FISHING DEVICE
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Best applicable in prospecting Iron deposits.
AERIAL MAGNETOMETER
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In mechanical exploration drilling, the maximum depth of hole considered shallow.
100METERS
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In percussion drilling, how drill cuttings are collected from the bottom of the hole.
BAILING
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Philippine Associated Smelting and Refining Corporation (PASAR)-
ISABELLE, LEYTE
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Dividing line where the last assay shows the minable grade.
ORE LIMIT
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Exposure consisting of loose/traces of mineral fragments found downslope of a mineral deposit.
FLOATS
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Geophysical exploration methods used preferably in petroleum an gas exploration.
GRAVIMETRIC
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Facility where cores are stored in sequence according to depth.
CORE BOXES
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These are materials where all volatiles have been removed by heating.
SINTER
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Fuel in an Iron blast furnace.
COKE
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Deep crack in Glacier?
Crevasse
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Google’s Linux-based operating system?
gLinux? | Android
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Used to heat houses, melt ores, or produced steam?
Furnace
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Seismic sea waves that can follow earthquakes?
Tsunamis
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Underground tunnels forming a cemetery?
Catacombs
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Which is not an operating system? Symbian, Android Froyo, Nokia, none of the above
Nokia?
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Same mineral as acanthite but different crytal structure?
ARGENTITE
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The 7 major tectonic plates cover _______ of the word’s land area.
94%
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Silicates?
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Water stored in glaciers and ice caps consist ______ of world’s freshwater.
70%
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PMRC
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UNIX operating system?
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US- bakit di na sila independent sa Iraq oil?
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New mining technology in UG
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Coal producer? What country?
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APEC countries?
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Fastest to recover investment?
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Maximizes profit for gold?
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68. Maximizes profit?
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67. Payback
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66. IRR
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65. Uranium deposits? Where in the Philippines?
BICOL REGION
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64. Where would you explore for possible chromite deposits?
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Latest MS office version?
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Sulfide mineral utilized for sulfur?
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52. Mining method of Apex-Masara mine?
CUT & FILL
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Uranium deposits? Where in the Philippines?
BICOL REGION
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Water stored in glaciers and ice caps consist ______ of world’s freshwater.
70%
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The 7 major tectonic plates cover _______ of the word’s land area.
94%
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Same mineral as acanthite but different crytal structure?
ARGENTITE