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DOCUMENT RESUME ED 381 383 SE p156 175 TITLE Mining Glossary and Games. INSTITUTION National Energy Foundation, Salt Lake City, UT. PUB DATE 91 NOTE 67p. AVAILABLE FROM National Energy Foundation, 5225 Wiley Post Way, Suite 170, Salt Lake City, UT 24416. PUB TYPE Guides Classroom Use Teaching Guides (For Teacher) (052) EDRS PRICE MF01/PC03 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS Earth Science; *Educational Games; Elementary Secondary Education; Environmental Education; Geology; Glossaries; *Minerals; *Mining; Science Activities; *Vocabulary Development ABSTRACT This booklet was produced in an effort to increase the awareness and appreciation of young people for the Earth's resources. The Mining Education Glossary is intended to provide easy reference to mining terms which are used in the minerals recovery industry and as a useful resource for teaching basic learning skills. Accompanying the glossary are 28 mining games designed to help students at all grade levels learn language arts skills including spelling, vocabulary development, word usage, pronunciation and the meanings of words that might be used in various related study units. Activities involve students in word search games, crossword puzzles, and other language and word power learning experiences. Activity instructions are designed for students and allow for independent study. Each activity also contains teacher information. (LZ) *********************************************************************** Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from tl-e original document. ***************************"******************************************* r 9 40 9 at U S DEPARTMENT OP EDUCATOR Office or Educational Research andlitioneventeni EDUCATIONAL RESOURCESINCORMAT/ON CENTERfERIQ This docunirool tut been reproducedse received from tho swoon or orsanitabon originality it. 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The GLOSSARY will provide easy reference to to pan a living of gold from a stream, or a heartless murder by mining termswhich are used in the minerals recovery industry. claim-jumpers trying to make it big with a rich vein of ore The GLOSSARY also provides a useful resource for teaching without paying the miserable price of prospecting, the basic learning skills. For the creative educator, this document settling of the west (and many parts of the east and south) had contains a wide variety of organizing, classifying and related their roots in mining. Actually, it was the precious metals learning opportunities. Add interest to your instruction by which beckoned great numbers of pioneers to leave com- using the MINING GLOSSARY to create word search games, fortable homes and secure jobs in the east to explore and crossword puzzles, and other language and word power conquer the frontier. learning experiences. As is true of many other facets of life, modem technology has propelled the mining business from hand-to-hand combat with nature to a process largely automated. Those involved have, to a great extent, set aside their picks and shovels in ACKNOWLEDGEMENT preference of the brute force of powerful machinery, and traded theircrude prospecting techniques for computerized This GLOSSARY reflects the work of many people. The terms instruments that greatly ease the task of locating precious and definitions have been extrapolated and adapted from a resources hidden beneath the ground. wide variety of resource materials and common usage. We express our appreciation for th, assistance and expertiseof Although the west has been won, mining still plays an all who have contributed to its completion. Special thanks extremely important role in the economy and activity of the should be extended to members of the project develop- United States. We rely heavily on its products for both the ment team including: Dr. Marvin Tolman - Brigham Young niceties and the necessities of life. Understanding something University, Paul Iverson - Nevada State Department of Miner- about what is involved in acquiring those resources requires als, David Bama - Bureau of Mines, Washington DC, Rex Curtis, more than a passing reference to mining as it was done in the Jon Burton - Art and Design, NEF, Ray Comia - Project Coordi- days of the early settlers.It requires a deliberate effort to nator, and Don Lochhead, Editor. explore, through books, stories, discussion, and where possible visits to the site of some of those resources--and it requires some degree of literacy in the terminology related to the minerals and mining industry. THE NATIONAL ENERGY FOUNDATION PURPOSE The National Energy Foundation is a nonprofit education These materials have been produced in an effort to increase organization. The mission of NEF is to provide cost-effective the awareness and appreciation of young people for the supplementary educational resources to aid educators in the earth's resources, and for those who work so hard to bring teaching process; conduct motivating teacher training pro- them to us in a usable form. Literacy in the natural resources grams to assist teachers; give students incentives to partici- must include the processes of making them available. The pate more intensely in the learning process; and provide the MINING EDUCATION GLOSSARY focuses on many mining means for corporations, government agencies and associa- terms which are used in a profession and process important tions to participate in the improvement and enhancement of to all of us. education. 5 ABSOLUTE: Term used in the trades to indicate a thing as being perfect or exact. ABSORBENT: A substante that will absorb, drink in or, A soak up a liquid like a sponge. ABANDON: (1)To stop drilling and remove the drill from ACCUMULATOR: A cylinder containing water. or oil the site before reaching the proposed depth. (2)To give up under pressure of a weighted piston for hydraulic pressure. maintaining a property. ACID: Substances which typically are soluble in water; ABATE: In metalworking, to lower the temperature of the sour, sharp, or biting to the taste; and which turn litmus metal. paper red. ABERRATION: A flaw in a stone, usually a gem stone. ACRE: A measure of surface area, usually of land.It contains 43,560 square feet (4840 square yards or 160 ABLATION:(1) The formation of a deposit by the square rods). washing away of loose or soluble minerals.(2) The decreasing of the size of a glacier by all the combined ACRE-FOOT: The amount of water that would cover 1 processes working on it. acre of land, 1 foot deep. 325,829 U.S. gallons. ABRADE: To rub, wear off, waste or wear away by ACRE-INCH: The volume of water, soil, or other material friction. The wearing awayof diamond or drill bit equipment that will cover 1 acre, 1 inch deep. by the friction with rock materials being cut or drilled. ACRE- YIELD: The average quantity of gas, oil, or water ABRASION: The wearing away by friction or rubbing,as recovered from 1 acre of a reservoir. The quantity of any . water carving sand or glaciers cutting rock and grinding it product obtained from 1 acre. up. ADAMITE: A basic zinc arsenate mineral that hasa slight ABRASIVE: The substance used for grinding, polishing, arsenic smell. It has a brilliant fluorescence. or pressure blasting. For preparing polished surfaces. May be natural diamonds, corundum, emery, etc., or man-made ADAPTER TROUGH: A short section ofa shaker aluminum oxide, silicon carbide, and boron carbide. conveyor trough that serves as a connecting link between any two sizes of troughs. / trillium/to! 1&/ X111' .1,4vommummuumn7nunununimmill. 101,11 4:'17;r4Fejes Ork P14 04. rig!giro, 411 CZ. a 4Ii4): Ea ADIT: A nearly horizontal passage from the earth's surface AGGREGATE: Uncrushed or crushed gravel, crushed into a mine. stone or rock, sand, or artificially produced inorganic materials which form a major part of concrete. ADOBE: A (sun-dried) brick that is made of clayey and silty deposits. A deposit found in the desert basins of AGING: To become old; to show the effects or southwestern United States and in Mexico. The material is characteristics of increasing age. used extensively for making sun-dried brick. A-HORIZON: The uppermost layer of soil from which AERATE: To expose to air by passing air through it. It can soluble salts have been leached and in which organic be accomplished by stirring, spraying, or bubbling air into matter has accumulated which is conducive to plant growth. a substance. AIR COMPRESSOR: A machine which draws in air at AERIAL MAPPING: The taking of continuous vertical atmospheric pressure, compresses it, and delivers it at a photographs from an airplane for geophysical and other high pressure. purposes. AIR CONDI TIONING: To control in a limited area the AFTERCOOLER: A device for cooling compressed air quantity, quality, and temperature-humidity of the air. between the compressor and the mine shaft. AIR DUCT: A pipe or tubular channel for conveying air, AFTERGASES: Gases produced by mine explosions or usually from a fan to a point of use. mine fires. AIR GATE: An air regulator or an underground roadway AFTERSHOCK: The shocks produced following an in a mine used for ventilation. earthquake or blasting. They are usually less in energy than the original shock. They continue for a period of time after AIRHAMMER: Atool in which a hammer head is activated the quake or blast.