Mining Paper 2 May/June 2015

Question 10

State four uses of gemstones.

Observation

The responses of the candidates to this question was poor and very few of them scored high marks. The expected answers were:

  • gemstones are used for making jewelries and other adornment  e.g. diamond, ruby;
  • diamond as gemstone is used in drilling bits;
  • diamond as gemstone is used industrially in the cutting of other stones;
  • gemstones are used in laser technology;
  • diamond as gemstones could be used industrially as abrasive;
  • for decoration;
  • used as hedge;
  • means of exchange.