Mining

Question 0

What is mining?

Answer 0

It involves cutting away or extracting rocks that contain a mineral. The rock is crushed and the mineral removed using a chemical process. The tons of rock as well as other waste materials produced in the process have to be removed.

Question 1

What is the rock containing the mineral called?

Answer 1

Ore

Question 2

What are 2 ways of mining?

Answer 2

Open pit mining

Shaft and deep level mining

Question 3

Describe open pit mining

Answer 3

This can only be done when the minerals are close to the surface. It is the simplest type of mining. It is difficult and more expensive to get rocks to the surface as the pit gets deeper.

Question 4

How deep is the Big Hole of Kimberley?

Answer 4

214m

Question 5

Describe shaft and deep level mining

Answer 5

The mining companies dig tunnels to where the minerals are when they are deep below the surface.

Question 6

What are mining tunnels called?

Answer 6

Shafts

Question 7

How do miners get down mining shafts?

Answer 7

Lifts take them to different mining levels

Question 8

What are the deepest mines in SA?

Answer 8

Tautona and Savuka, deeper than 4000m

Question 9

When was the first diamond found in SA?

Answer 9

In 1886

Question 10

We’re was the first diamond discovered in SA?

Answer 10

On a farm in Kimberley