Trivia midterms - mining

El Teniente

world's LARGEST UNDERGROUND COPPER mine

Bingham Canyon Mine

world's DEEPEST OPEN PIT copper mine

Chuquicamata Mine

world's LARGEST OPEN PIT COPPER mine

Escondida Mine

LARGEST COPPER MINE in the world(2021)

Tampakan copper-gold site

world's LARGEST COPPER DEPOSIT

Oyu Tolgoi Mine

world's leading copper producers

Serra Norte Mining Complex

world's LARGEST IRON ore mine

Kiruna Mine

LARGEST, most modern UNDERGROUND iron ore mine

Minas Gerais

one of the top regions producer in the world

Goldstrike Mine

North America: biggest gold mine

Boddington Gold Mine

Australia: largest gold mine

Mponeng Gold Mine

world's DEEPEST GOLD mine

Nevada Gold Mines

world's LARGEST GOLD mining COMPLEX

Kimberley Diamond Mine

"BIG HOLE"; biggest hand-excavated hole in the world

Aikhal Mine

world's BIGGEST diamond mine

Venetia Diamond Mine

South Africa (40%): biggest diamond producing mine

open-pit: 2021

underground: 2046

Diavik Diamond Mine

Canada: largest diamond mine FOUR(4) high grade diamond-bearing kimberlite

Argyle Mine

produced >90% pink diamonds ever found in the world

Almaden Mine

greater accumulation of mercury resources in the world

Almaden District of Spain

largest mercury concentration in the world

Olympic Dam

world's LARGEST URANIUM deposit; 4th LARGEST COPPER deposit; it supplies critical minerals

Kazatomprom

worlds LARGEST PRODUCER of URANIUM Kazakhstani Mining Company

Khewra Salt Mine

2nd LARGEST SALT mine

Semirara Mining and Power Corporation

Philippines: LARGEST COAL producer

Weipa Bauxite Mine

Largest Bauxite Mine in the world

Climax Molybdenum Mine

world's leading producer of molybdenum

Red Dog lead-zinc-silver mine

largest single zinc producer in the world

Impala Mine

South Africa: world's leading producer of platinum

Teresa Marble Company (TMC)

pioneer in modern quarrying and a leader in the Philippines marble industry

Padcal Mine

operated by Philex Mining Company; block cave method; "Sto. Tomas II Copper-Gold Deposit" produce copper concentrates cylindrical porphyry type deposit

Barlo Mine

Cyprus-type of Volcanogenic Massive Sulfide (VMS) copper zinc deposit

SAILE Industries, Inc

.only known deposit of zeolite in the Philippines: Pangasinan

Didipio Gold and Copper Mine

operated by OceanaGold (Philippines), Inc. (OGPI); 1st mining company with FTAA

Zambales Diversified Metals Corporation (ZDMC)

subsidiary of DMCI Mining Corp.; MPSA was granted 2004; nickel-laterite

Co-O underground mine

or Philsaga Mining Corporation series of intermediate sulphidation, epithermal quartz veins

OceanaGold (Philippine) Inc

.calc-alkalic porphyry deposit

Sunshine Silver Mine

USA: most productive silver region (Idaho's Silver Valley)

Wessels Mine

Comprises half of the world's manganese resource

Bagacay Mine

Kuroko-type copper deposit associated with andesitic to rhyodacite flows, pyroclastics and intercalated clastic sediments.

Lepanto Mine

high- sulphidation epithermal deposit underground cut and fill mining method

Beverly Deposit

situ mining (mining method) to extract uranium

Panian Mine

Large open-pit coal mine supplies energy in the Philippines with a portion exported to India and China

Flint

1st mineral used

oldest known underground mine located in Swaziland (ochre was mined)

Benguet Corporation

1st and oldest mining company in the Philippines established in 1903, pioneer in mining in the country

Masbate Gold Project

Joint operation between Filminera Resources Corporation (FRC) and the Philippine Gold Processing and Refining Corporation) PGPRC);low-sulfidation epithermal gold deposit Pinanaan Fault to the east and Malubi-Lanang-Balete Fault to the west.