This glossary is about mineral technology and the mining world. I created it so that people can learn some words that are use in the mining industry.
Cage
The conveyance used to transport men and equipment between the surface and the mine levels
Example: 40 men are going down with the cage right now.
fr: Cage
Concentrate
A fine, powdery product of the milling process containing a high percentage of valuable metal.
Example: This concentrate contain 40% of gold.
fr: Concentré
Concentrator
A milling plant that produces a concentrate of the valuable minerals or metals.
Example: I'm working in the concentrator.
fr: Concentrateur
Crusher
A crusher is a machine which breaks up solids like rock by pressing them.
Example: A rock has blocked the crusher.
fr: Broyeur
Deposit
A mineral deposit containing a metal or other valuable resources in a cost-competitive concentration.
Example: We found a giant gold deposit at Shefferville.
fr: Gisement
Diamond drill
A rotary type of rock drill that cuts a core of rock that is recovered in long cylindrical sections.
Example: We are using a diamond drill to search for minerals.
fr: Foreuse au diamant
Dynamite
A high explosive consisting of nitroglycerine mixed with an absorbent material and typically molded into sticks.
Example: Can you got get a dynamite.
fr: Dynamite
Flotation
A milling process in which valuable mineral particles are induced to become attached to bubbles and float as others sink.
Example: We are using the flotation process to separate gold from graphite.
fr: Flotation
Geology
The science concerned with the study of the rocks which compose the Earth.
Example: I'm working in the geology departement at LaRonde mine.
fr: Géologie
Gold
A precious metal, the chemical element of atomic number 79, used in jewellery and decoration and many other things. Gold help to guarantee the value of currencies.
Example: This is a gold mine.
fr: Or
Jaw crusher
A machine in which rock is broken by the action of steel plates.
Example: This jaw crusher is crushing 5 ton of rock per minute.
fr: Concasseur à machoires
Loader
An heavy equipment machine used to move or load materials such as soil, rock, sand, demolition debris, etc. into or onto another type of machinery
Example: Can you move that rock from the roadd with the loader.
fr: Chargeur
Minable reserves
Ore reserves that are known to be extractable.
Example: This mine has 3 millions tons of minable reserves.
fr: Réserve minable
Mine
An excavation in the earth for extracting minerals
Example: I'm working in a coal mine.
fr: Mine
Miner
Someone who job is to dig and extract minerals ressources.
Example: I used to work has an asbestos minor in Thetford Mines.
fr: Mineur
Native metal
A metal occurring in nature in pure form, uncombined with other elements.
Example: It's impossible to find native metal in the nature
fr: Métal natif
Prospect
A mining property, the value of which has not been determined by exploration.
Example: We found a gold prospect.
fr: Prospect
Prospector
A person who searches for mineral deposits.
Example: I'm working has a gold prospector.
fr: Prospecteur
Rock mechanics
The study of the mechanical properties of rocks.
Example: I'm studying the rock mecanichs for my doctorat.
fr: Mécanique des roches
Vein
A fissure, fault or crack in a rock filled by minerals that have travelled upwards from some deep source.
