Mining Paper 2 May/June 2015

Question 9

List four surface mining methods.

Observation

This compulsory question was poorly attempted by many candidates and the performance of most of them was just fair.   The expected answers were:

  • quarrying;
  • strip mining;
  • open pit mining;
  • open cast;
  • placer mining(hydraulic and dredging);
  • solution mining;
  • ocean and sea bed mining;
  • deep sea mining;
  • glory hole mining;
  • leaching method of mining.
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