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Cookie Mining Activity

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Cookie Mining Purpose: For students to appreciation the economics of the mining processes which provides raw materials for the needs of our culture and civilization with a minimum impact on the environment. Materials: Grid paper Chocolate chip cookie Toothpick Paper clip Paper towels Cookie mining spreadsheet Electronic balance Objective: Your ultimate objective is to make a maximum profit with a minimum investment, just as is the case in an actual mining operation. Considerable thought should be put into determining what ?Mining property? you will purchase, the most efficient ?Mining equipment? you can buy, and the ?Mineral resource? extraction process you will use to insure a minimum of reclamation cost. Procedure:

Chapter 15 powerpoint

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Nonrenewable Mineral Resource Extraction & Processing Chapter 15 Essential Question #1 What are nonrenewable mineral resources & how does the USGS classify them? Minerals & Mineral Resources Minerals An element or inorganic compound that occurs naturally and is solid with a regular crystalline structure Ex: Salt / Quartz / Diamond Mineral Resources A concentration of naturally occurring material in or on the earth?s crust that can be extracted & processed into useful materials at an affordable cost Ex: fossil fuels / metallic minerals / nonmetalic minerals Nonrenewable Mineral Resources Fossil Fuels Coal, Oil, Natural Gas Metallic Mineral Resources Aluminum, Steel, Iron, Copper Strategic metals: manganese, cobalt, chromium, platinum Nonmetallic Mineral Resources

vocab chapter 16 and 17

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Peasants, population, and plague Rural poverty was not the only result of inefficient farming methods and social inequality. It also resulted from the rapid growth of Europe?s population. China?s population fell because of the Mongol conquest Three-field system: farmers grow their crops on 2/3 of their land each year and panted the third field in oats which stored N2and rejuvenated the soil, and it could be used to feed plow horses. Pop. Growth also led to the foundation of new agricultural settlements.
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