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Grade 11 Reviewer processes (geologic

processes) that can


1st Semester concentrate minerals and
Earth Science elements in rocks of a
particular area.
Liam Crisostomo Libatique | Einstein
Cyrha Angeline Mabborang | Galileo
Ore Deposits:
Willron Corpuz | Galileo
● Ore is a naturally-occurring
material from which a mineral
Module 6: Mineral Resources or minerals of economic value
Mining: can be extracted.
● The process of mineral ● Concentration that has been
extraction from a rock seam tested and known to be
or ore ( a natural rock or economically profitable to
sediment containing one or mine.
more valuable mineral). ● This can be classified
according to the mechanism
Mineral Resources: responsible for concentrating
● is the term used to describe the valuable substance.
the total amount of any given
geologic material of potential Mineral Formation:
economic interest, whether
discovered or not. Classification of Ore Minerals

1) Magmatic Ore Deposits


Mineral Reserves:
● is the term used to describe
the portion of a resource that
has been discovered or
inferred with some degree of
certainty and can be
extracted for a profit.

Mineral Deposits:
● Most rocks of the Earth's crust
contain metals and other
elements but at very low Concentration of valuable
concentrations. substances within an igneous body
● There are naturally occurring
via magmatic processes like crystal
fractionation and melting.

2) Hydrothermal Ore
Deposits

Concentrated by hot, water-rich


fluids flowing through rocks.
Mineral Exploration:
Types include: Vein, Disseminated,
● Modern mining technology
Massive Sulfide, and Stratabound
uses geophysical techniques
deposits.
that involve measuring the
3) Sedimentary Ore magnetic, gravity and sonic
response of rocks above and
Deposits
around a prospective mineral
Concentrated by chemical ore body.
precipitation from lakes or seawater
(e.g., evaporite and iron formations). Mineral Methods:
● Surface mining
4) Placer Ore Deposits a. Open Pit
b. Strip (Area or Contour)
Formed by gravity separation during c. Placer
sedimentary processes, typically
involving heavy, resistant minerals. Mineral Extraction:
● Materials extracted or “mined"
are rocks composed of both
ore and waste material (part
5) Residual Ore Deposits
of the rock which contain very
Formed by chemical weathering, little or no element or mineral
leading to the accumulation of of economic value).
valuable materials (e.g., bauxites,
nickeliferous laterites). Factors Mineral Processing:
include parent rock, climate, and low ● Mineral Processing is the
relief. process of extracting minerals
from rock seam/ore, refining is placed on a “leach
them, and preparing for use. pile” where cyanide
solution is sprayed or
a. Smelting dripped on top of the
- a process of applying pile.
heat to ore to extract a
base metal. Extras:

b. Heavy media separation


- crushed rocks are
submerged in liquid
where the
heavier/denser minerals
sink thus are separated
from the lighter
minerals.

c. Magnetic separation
- crushed ore is separated
from the waste
materials using a
powerful magnet.

d. Flotation
- powdered ore is placed
into an agitated and
frothy slurry where
some minerals may
either sink to the bottom
or may stick to the
bubbles and rise to the
top.

e. Cyanide heap launching


- method used for
low-grade gold ore
where the crushed rock

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