Mining Companies Flashcards
Where is the Discovery Chromite Mine located (by Heritage Operations)
Homonhon, Island Eastern Samar
What concentrator does Discovery Chromite Mine use
Reichert Spirals
What do Heritage Operations grow in back filled areas
Pineapple, Mango, Palm oil
River that runs thru Heritage Mine
Cantilado River
Scope of SDMP of Heritage
Livelihood, infrastructure, Community service
Magmatic sulfide deposit of Nickel
Pentlandite
Tampakan was closed due to
Ban on open pit mine by the local government
Type of deposit found in the Iron mine in Larap Camarines Norte
Bessemer Fe-Cu-Mo
Where is Philphos located
isabel, Leyte
Thorium-REE is found here
San-Vicente, Palawan
Where is Sto. Tomas II orebody found
Padcal, Tuba Benguet
Mining methods used by Philex
Openpit, the Slusher block caving, then LHD block caving
Why did Philex change from slusher to LHD
as depth increases, broken ore is bigger
Mill plant of Philex uses
Conventional flotation method
Dimension of orebody in Philex
500 x 550 m, 730m high
sto tomas II is formed by
quartz diorite orebodies intruding the Zigzag Pugo formation
Primary ore minerals of Philex
Chalcopyrite and Bornite, w/ Pyrite
Minerals in Philex are Supergene or hypogene
Hypogene
How did the Rapu-Rapu incidents happen
failure of discharge pumps and accumulation of rain water
Problem caused by Rapu-Rapu tailing pond
AMD
Used in treating Cyanide
Sodium Metabisulfite
Marcopper uses mined out Tapian pit as this
tailings pond from waste of San Antonio Pit
Cause of Marcopper tailings leak
Tapian tunnel plug failure
Contaminated rivere in the Marcopper incident
Boac River
3 Nickel mines in Palawan
RioTuba, Berong Nickel (Quezon), Citinickel
Bill known as the “Philippine Mineral Resources Act of 2009”
House Bill No. 206
Form of VMS deposit in Rapu Rapu
pillow lavas
Coto Mine in Masinloc, Zambales chromite type
Refractory grade in dunite harzburgite
Acoje Mine in Sta. Cruz, Zambales kind of chromite
Metallurgical type in tabular and lenticular pods
Besshi type is characterized by
lenses or bands in schists w/ cp, py, bor, cov,chalco
Besshi type found in the Philippines
Rapu-Rapu Albay
Cyprus type is char by
lens shaped py-cp ores in pillow lavas
Cyprus type found in the Philippines
Barlo, Pangasinan. Bicobian, Isabela
```ko deposit is char by
submarine felsic volcanism
Kuroko type found in the Philippines
Bagacay, Samar
San Mariano, Isabela
Resource found in offshore Palawan
Manganese
Resource in Boyongan Porphyry-Copper gold deposit
300 M tons 0,6% Cu, 1 g/t
Other name for pitchblende
Uraninite
Larap Iron Deposit is special in this regard
Largest Contact Metasomatic Iron deposit
Foound in Larap Mine besides Iron
Cu-Mo in metasomatized skarn
Ore deposit classification of Thanksgiving Mine
Skarn deposit
Sto Tomas Ore deposit type
Porphyry Copper (+Au, +Mo)
Placer deposit in the Phil
Paracale, Masbate
Give one Hydrothermal Pb-Zn deposit in the Phil
Ayala deposit Zamboanga (veins and fracture filling)
Hydrothermal Copper in P{hil
Cabapa Mine in Zambales (breccia and fissure fillings in Gabbro, cockscomb is common)
Gold hydrothermal deposti in the Philippines
Paracale, Camarines Norte Gumaos Mine
Type of Deposit of Acupan deposit, Itogon Benguet
low sulfidation carbonate base epithermal copper w/ Porphyry copper
Victoria Gold deposit what kind of deposit
Low sulfidation carbonate- base metal epithermal w/ enargite, cp, py
Far Southeeast Porphry copper deposit hosted in
quartz diorite porphyry stock in metavolcanics, Bor, cpy, electrum
Electrum is a
naturally occuring alloy of gold and silver
Enargite deposit shape
multiple elongated pipelike orebody occur as replacement or breccia fillings
Type of Ore deposit of Atlas Mine
Porphyry copper
Deposit type of Sipalay, Negros Occidental
Porphyry copper
Philex Padcal Mine mill flowsheet
Jaw Crusher(blake)-cone crusher(shorthead)-ball mill-flotation-filtering-shipment
Used in Philex to drive vertically
Raise climbers and Jacklegs
Type of drilling in Philex for blasting
Fanhole drilling
Used in handle ore in Philex
LHD and dump trucks
Used in transporting ore from crushing to the surfacein Philex
Feeder belt conveyor
Backfill gradient in Philex
-4 to -7% for water run-off
End of LOM of Philex
2020
Flotation cell eqpt used in Philex
Mechanical - Jameson - Wemco[
Carmen Copper Ore minerals
Cpy, bor