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Mining

Mining for coal is something that is widely known, but did you know that diamonds, uranium, copper, and other non-renewable natural resources are also mined? There are two types of mining; surface and subsurface. Questions about the methods and types of mining, what ores are mined, and related questions should be asked in this category.

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Safety conditions in a mining industry?

A few years back, I can say that safety is still very minimal in those kind of workplaces. The only things that miners had to protect them were probably their helmets. But, as technology improves, we now have a lot of ways to ensure safety in the mining industry and we even have regulatory boards that helps ensure that safety is being implemented - one such is MSHA. There are a lot of things that makes such workplaces even more hazardous such as climate conditions. earthquakes, etc. and the safety guidelines and rules from MSHA helps ensure that whenever such occurs, the risks included with it are minimized.

In mining What is a duckbill shaker conveyor?

Automatic coal loading machine, used transported coal from one area to the next without having to manually haul it.

What country produces the most copper?

Chile is the world's largest producer of copper, constituting 28 percent of the world's reserves.

Why is a ruby so important?

The ruby gemstone is next only to the diamond in terms of hardness and pricing. For a ruby to be born in the natural environment, a perfect combination of aluminum oxide, correct temperature, correct pressure in the earth's crust and very low silicon content is a requisite. This makes rubies very rarely available gems in nature and hence they are so precious and important!

How was gold first mined?

it was first mined by placer mining method of washing the dirt from around the small pieces of gold found in creeks.

A tendonitis that leads to mineral deposits is known as?

A tendonitis that leads to mineral deposits is referred to as calcification tendonitis. Tendinitis is when a tendon becomes inflamed, irritated, or experiences swelling.

What is Data Warehousing and Data Mining?

data warehouse A data warehouse is the main repository of an organization's historical data, its corporate memory. It contains the raw material for management's decision support system. The critical factor leading to the use of a data warehouse is that a data analyst can perform complex queries and analysis, such as data mining, on the information without slowing down the operational systems. data mining The development of computational algorithms for the identification or extraction of structure from data. This is done in order to help reduce, model, understand, or analyze the data. Tasks supported by data mining include prediction, segmentation, dependency modeling, summarization, and change and deviation detection. Database systems have brought digital data capture and storage to the mainstream of data processing, leading to the creation of large data warehouses.

Where is the mining museum in Pokemon diamond?

The Mining Museum is located in the top right corner of Oreburgh City.

What is the difference between Supervised and unsupervised methods in data mining?

Unsupervised Learning

• The model is not provided with the correct results

during the training.

• Can be used to cluster the input data in classes on

the basis of their statistical properties only.

• Cluster significance and labeling.

• The labeling can be carried out even if the labels are

only available for a small number of objects

representative of the desired classes.

Supervised Learning

• Training data includes both the input and the

desired results.

• For some examples the correct results (targets) are

known and are given in input to the model during

the learning process.

• The construction of a proper training, validation and

test set (Bok) is crucial.

• These methods are usually fast and accurate.

• Have to be able to generalize: give the correct

results when new data are given in input without

knowing a priori the target.

What is the depth of the deepest mine?

Anglo Gold Ashanti's Tautona Mine,3,902 m below surface

How is cobaltite extracted?

Cobalite is cobalt that has been extracted from copper and nickel. The mixture is often heated and treated using flash smelting techniques, and often, the mixture is boiled to get it to separate.

How do you mine?

The basic princible of mining is to go to where the deposit of the wanted material is found, dig the material from the deposit with suitable tools and then refine the raw mineral to pure ingots.

So the basics is simple.

It becomes complicated when you add the reality to mining:

Before you can dig on a site, you need to acquire permission to mine the site. Before getting permission, assessing of environmental and safety hazards have to be made. Many times you have to also pay to the owner of the land.

The tools also may require permissions to use, a basic pickax can be used freely, but if you need power tools or big machines, you need permissions (and education to use them). Using explosives need many different permits.

Safety also has to be taken cared of all times. The deeper you go underground, the more dangerous it becomes. Keeping up with safety is expensive.

Refining the raw material means separating the metal from the rock. It depends on the metal we are mining which method to use, but in many cases the refining requires hazardous chemicals.

What is dolomite used for?

It has a couple of industrial uses such as in smelting and can be used as a soil additive when crushed. The literature also makes mention of its use in finished stonework.

Where is galena mined?

It is found in the USA [Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri], Germany, Peru, Mexico, Zambia, and England.

Where are diamond mines located?

Many diamond mines are located in Africa. More specifically - near the southern coast and in the countries of the Angola, The Democratic Republic of Congo, Botswana, Sierra Leone and South Africa.

Some of the largest diamonds have been found in South America including the Vargas diamond found in Brazil in 1938.

The Argyle diamond mine in Australia is one of the largest sources of mostly industrial grade diamonds and fancy pink diamonds.

There are also diamond mines in Canada, Russia, India and other locations on earth where volcanic pipes have erupted diamonds to the surface of the earth.