ORE DEP (FUNDAMENTALS) Flashcards
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- A rock body in which there is a naturally enriched concentration of one or more metals and from whic it is economic to extract these metals?
Ore deposit
2, Ore that is economically feasible to mine for which there are no legal or engg imediments to mining?
Reserves
- Ores that may potentially be extracted at some time in the future
Resource
- General term for refining and pocessing minerals
Beneficiation
- studies the physical and chemical behavior of metallic elements, their inter-metallic compounds, and their mixtures, which are called alloys
Metallurgy
- Minerals groups which are considered important ore minerals? (7)
Native Metals, Sulfides, Sulfosalts, Oxides, Hydroxides, Silicates and Carbonates
- Elements that combine with oxygen and are dominantly oxides and silicates
Lithopiles
- Element that combine with sulfur and dominanly in sulfide minerals
Chalcophile
- Element that occur as native metals or alloys
Siderophiles
- Elements forming elemental gases
Atmophile
- What are the goldschmidt classes eof economically important metals?
Chalcophile and Siderophile
- Chemical Bonding in Sulfides which led to a relatively small extraction energy?
Covalent
- Chemical Bonding of Oxides and Silicates?
Ionic
- Elements which partitioned into the core during differentiation and is strongly depleted in crust?
Siderophiles
- Elements which partitioned into the Mantle over the crust?
Compatible Lithophile Elements like Cr
- Elements which partitioned into the crust?
Incompatible Lithopile Elements like REEs
- Concentration of the element in the rock
Grade
- Relationship between cost of extraction of a commodity per mass and concentrtaion of the element in a rock?
Inversely Proportional
- Trend of Enrichment factor as the clark of concentrtaion of elements decreases in the crust?
Increases
- Accumulations of ore minerals that are too small to be extracted
Occurences
- Accumulations of ore minerals which have potential to be identified as ore deposits thuogh exploration
Prospects
- Deposits which belong in the top 10% of any category with respect to the metal contained
World-Class
- The cheapest ore body to mine?
Flat lying body
- Whc is more cheaper to mine, a sub-sperical shape ore or a thin vein?
Sub-spherical
- Ratio of waste rock to ore
Stripping ratio
26.Additional products which control the economic feasibility of a mine?
Co-products
- Extracted from mined and milled ore or waste which do not significantly affects the economics of mining
By-products
- Geologic factors whic affects economics of ore extraction?
1) Shape and Depth of Deposit 2)Mineralogy and texture of Ore 3)Presence of multiple Extractable products
- Commonly used attribute to classify ore deposits?
1) Element or mineral extracted 2)Host-rock type 3)Tectonic Settings and/or geological age 4)Major genetic process of enrichment
- Types of deposits which resulted from the concentration through chemical and mineralogical processes in magma
Magamatic
- Concentration as a result of mehcanical or chemical process at the time of sedimentation?
Sedimentary deposits
- Enrichement as a result of weathering procceses?
Regolith