18.2. Geological Resources – Vocabulary
Section 18.1: If you can’t grow it, you have to mine it
- mine
- extract
- resource
- energy resource
- uranium
- fossil fuel
- gas
- petroleum
- gold
- copper
- silver
- nickel
- nickel-metal-hydride (NiMH)
- fibreglass
- steel
- quarry
- oil or gas well
Section 18.2: Metal deposits
- mine / mining
- mining district
- mining deposit
- supplier
- extraction
- resource
- mining sector
- revenue
- petroleum sector
- metal deposit
- ore minerals
- economy / economic / economical / economically
- background level
- ore grade
- economic grade
- viable deposit
- parts per million (ppm)
- concentration factor
- mineable deposit
- host rock
- ore-forming processes
- mineral deposit
- magmatic nickel deposit
- gravity segregation
- crystal settling
- smelter / smelting
- sphalerite
- chalcopyrite
- volcanogenic massive sulfide (VSM) deposit
- submarine volcanism
- hydrothermal vent
- black smoker
- massive sulfide deposit
- precipitate / precipitation
- ore body
- porphyry deposit
- commodity
- metal enrichment
- metal-rich water
- vein-type gold deposit
- epithermal deposit
- bornite
- molybdenite
- banded iron formation (BIF)
- hematite
- chert
- magnetite
- unconformity-type uranium deposit
- uraninite
- mineral processing
- open-pit mine
- underground mine
- waste rock
- mine shaft
- decline
- level
- tunnel
- pillar
- headframe
- ventilation shaft
- crusher
- exploratory drill holes
- concentrate
- tailings
- tailings pond
- settling pond
- concentrator
- embankment
- acid rock drainage (ARD)
- acidic water
- neutral water
- tailings dam breach
- metal refinement
Section 18.3: Industrial minerals
- industrial mineral
- aggregate
- quarry / quarried
- concrete
- calcite
- limestone
- sylvite
- rock salt
- gypsum
- drywall
- building facade
Section 18.4: Fossil fuels
- fossil fuel
- coal
- oil
- gas
- organic matter
- lignite
- bituminous coal
- anthacite
- low grade
- high grade
- coal deposit
- electricity generation
- biogenic gas
- thermogenic gas
- methane
- oil window
- source rock
- reservoir rock
- migration
- permeable
- petroleum field / oil field
- impermeable cap rock
- anticline trap
- oil and gas migration
- seismic section
- migration path
- petroleum geologist
- reserve
- conventional reserve
- unconventional oil and gas
- oil sands
- hydrocarbon
- environmental cost
- strip-mining
- shale gas
- hydraulic fracturing
- fracking
- induced seismicity
- directional drilling
- fracking chemicals
- gas-bearing formation
- coal-bed methane
Section 18.5: Diamonds
- kimberlite
- diamond-bearing rock
- craton
Summary
- geologic resources
Other Vocabulary
- bauxite
- galena
- native copper
- cobaltite
- ilmenite
- rutile
- non-renewable resources
- renewable resources
- non-metallic mineral resources
- agricultural minerals
- construction minerals
- gangue
- gossan
- immiscible melt
- cumulate
- hydrothermal veins
- metasomatism
- residual mineral deposits
- secondary enrichment zone
- leached zone
- sedimentary mineral deposits
- placer deposits
- magmatic segregation deposits
- solar energy
- geothermal energy
- tidal energy
- electromagnetic radiation
- hydro / hydroelectric power
- source bed
- reservoir bed
- oil trap
- peat
- particulates
- wind power
- bioenergy
- ocean energy
- geogenic
