Mining
Mining
20 terms
My field of study is mineral technology and my glossary will talk about mining. Mining is the operations of extracting rock, coal or other minerals from a mine. A mine is an opening in the ground or under the ground. My glossary could be useful for others, because in this field of study and in the future career in mining you have to know these word, because more than half of them are use in their English form even if everyone is speaking French.
- Acid mine drainage
- Acidic run-offs water from mine waste dumps and mill tailing ponds.
- Blaster
- A person qualified to handle and use explosives for breaking rock.
- Cage
- The conveyance used to transport men and equipment between the surface and the mine levels.
- Diamond driller
- A person who operates a diamond drill.
- Explosives
- Substances used in mining to break rock by the energy released upon detonation.
- Face
- The end of a drift, crosscut, or stope in which work occurs.
- Grade
- The concentration of a valuable mineral or metal within ore, typically measured as the amount of metal per ton of rock.
- Hanging wall
- The rock on the upper side of a vein or ore deposit.
- Invert
- The bottom of a tunnel or the floor of a shaft.
- Level
- These are horizontal openings on a working horizon in a mine. Levels are usually established at regular intervals from a shaft, typically about 50 meters apart.
- Muck
- The loose material or debris removed by excavating or dredging operations.
- Native metal
- A metal occurring in nature in pure form, uncombined with other elements.
- Ore pass
- A vertical or inclined chute used to move ore from a higher level down to a lower level of the mine, or to a processing plant or waste area.
- Pillar
- A block of solid ore or other rock left in place to structurally support the shaft, walls or roof of a mine.
- Quarrying
- The process of extracting stone, building materials, or other resources from a quarry, an open-pit mine typically used for mining stone or other materials used in construction.
- Rise
- A vertical or steeply inclined opening that connects different levels in a mine.
- Shaft
- A vertical or inclined excavation in rock to provide access to an ore body.
- Tailing
- The material or waste left over after the valuable product/commodity has been extracted from ore.
- Ventilation
- The process of supplying fresh air to underground mines and removing stale or noxious gases.
- Waste
- Rock that is not mineable at a profit or has no value, which must be removed to access the ore.