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What problems can result from removing waste material from ore?
It can be expensive and harmful to the environment. ......
When is a mineral no longer classified as an ore?
If the cost of removing the waste material that surrounds the ore becomes higher than the value of the ore itself, then the mineral will no longer be classified as an ore.
What is the process for extracting diamond from its ore?
Diamonds stones are not embedded in ore: at the mining site, diamonds are separated from other material by gravitational, tumbling movement with running water.
How is gold separated from its ore?
it is burnes out in a furnace.
Is it true or false iron is separated from oxygen by cooling iron ore?
False. The ore is heated (smelting)
How is mercury separated from its raw material?
The raw ore (cinnabar) is heated - causing the pure metal to separate from the waste sulfides.
How is iron separated from ore?
A magnet is used to separate iron from non-ferrous material in the pulverized ore.
What material has to be separated from an ore?
The unusable materiaj which is often called slag.
How is iron ore separated from rock?
A magnet is used to separate iron from non-ferrous material in the pulverized ore.
What problems can result from removing waste material from ore?
It can be expensive and harmful to the environment. ......
When is a mineral no longer classified as an ore?
If the cost of removing the waste material that surrounds the ore becomes higher than the value of the ore itself, then the mineral will no longer be classified as an ore.
Different ways that pure metals are recovered from the ore?
depends on which metal, and which ore. Most are crushed- then some are roasted (heated) some are separated by weight, physical characteristics, etc. In some cases, metals are recovered by chemical reaction, using a chemical that dissolves the metal, which removes it from the waste material.
What is the process for extracting diamond from its ore?
Diamonds stones are not embedded in ore: at the mining site, diamonds are separated from other material by gravitational, tumbling movement with running water.
How did iron extract from the ground?
Smelting: Mined out of the ground, raw ore is a mixture of materials called ore proper and loose earth called gangue (waste). The ore proper is separated by crushing the raw ore are simply washing away the lighter soil. Breaking down the ore from its impurities is more difficult.
How can iron be separated from ore?
By smelting.
What two problems can result from removing waste material from ores?
It can be expensive and harmful to the environment.yes it can be harmful yet it can cause dormant toxins in the ore to become active.Not to mention that the more you mine the ore the actual gangue becomes higher than the actual value of the ore itself, therefore ridding it of the classification "ore"(gangue: the commercially valueless material in which ore is found.)(bold = edited by Ethan Urban)
What mineral doesn't occur naturally but must be separated from its ore and its harder more rust-resistant form of this mineral is steel?
it is iron
