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MINING:
The extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials…
MINING:
The extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the earth from an ore body, lode, vein, seam, or reef, which forms the mineralized package of economic interest to the miner
PROCESS
- DISPOSAL OF OVERBURDEN AND WASTE ROCK: Removal of rock and soil layers above the mineral
- ORE EXTRACTION: heavy equipment and machinery transport the ore to processing facilities using
haul roads.
- ACTIVE MINING: The extraction and concentration (or beneficiation) of a metal from the earth
- BENEFICIATION: grinding of the ore and separating the small quantities of metal from the nonmetallic material of the ore
- DEVELOPMENT: Construction of access roads/ site preparation and clearing
- TAILING DISPOSAL: prevent the mobilization and release into the environment of toxic constituents of the tailings
- EXPLORATION: for knowledge of the location and value of the mineral ore deposit
- SITE RECLAMATION AND CLOSURE: return the site to a condition that most resembles the pre-mining condition
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MINERALS
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GOLD
In Chile (ended in disaster )and in Cajamarca, Peru
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