Study Notes For Quiz 3

Question 0

Components of Coal that are measured in a lab that contribute to its economic value

Answer 0

Ash, Sulfer, British Thermal Unit

Question 1

Rank of Coal

Answer 1

Peat, Lignite, Sub-bituminous, Bituminous, Anthracite

Question 2

Underground Mining

Answer 2

Room & Pillar

Long Wall

Question 3

Room & Pillar

Answer 3

Hold up roof with pillars, create rooms to mine coal from

Question 4

Long Wall

Answer 4

Cut down through seam, until end of seam, support roof with shield, mine coal and gradually move towards beginning

Question 5

Surface Mining

Answer 5

Removal of soil, rock, mining of coal

Question 6

Methane in Coal Seams

Answer 6

Retrieved by drilling to release pressure, Cemented casing, capitation, under reamed/open hole

Question 7

Resource

Answer 7

Something that has economic value

Question 8

Geologic Resources

Answer 8

Natural geological phenomena that can be adapted for human benefit

Question 9

Renewable

Answer 9

Derived from living matter and replenished with the growing season, or at least over a short time period

Question 10

Nonrenewable

Answer 10

One-crop resource, mineral resources

Question 11

Exhaustable

Answer 11

Of limited quantity compared to rate of use and those renewable resources whose productivity may be destroyed

Question 12

Inexhaustible

Answer 12

Those available in exceptionally great quantities, those easily renewed, with a low rate of use

Question 13

Mineral Resoures

Answer 13

Concentrations of naturally occurring material in or on the crust of the Earth in a form such that economic extraction is currently or potentially feasible

Question 14

Reserve

Answer 14

Mineral resource whose extent and grade are known and for which extraction is now economically, technologically and politically feasible