Scribd
Upload
137 views

Day 3

This document contains questions about various topics in geology and mining including: 1. Blood diamonds and coltan ore 2. Steps in mineral exploration including geochemical sampling and pathfinder elements 3. Calculations for petroleum production rates and break-even costs 4. Phases of mineral exploration and techniques like geophysical measurements 5. Ore deposit types including porphyry copper deposits and their associated textures 6. Sustainable development principles like the Rio Declaration

Uploaded by

CarlAngeloSolee
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
137 views

Day 3

This document contains questions about various topics in geology and mining including: 1. Blood diamonds and coltan ore 2. Steps in mineral exploration including geochemical sampling and pathfinder elements 3. Calculations for petroleum production rates and break-even costs 4. Phases of mineral exploration and techniques like geophysical measurements 5. Ore deposit types including porphyry copper deposits and their associated textures 6. Sustainable development principles like the Rio Declaration

Uploaded by

CarlAngeloSolee
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
You are on page 1/ 3

1. What is a BLOOD DIAMOND?

(a diamond mined in areas of conflict to fund warlords


and terrorist groups)
2. What is Coltan? (ore of niobium and tantalum)
3. Pathfinder elements for Gold?
4. Correlation Co-efficient,, review Sir Villones’ notes
5. Piedra Frailesca (Almaden Spain, Chuquicumata Chile, Antamina Peru)
6. Not a secondary dispersion (Superjacent Dispersion)
7. Chief Operating Officer (Mining Superintendent)
8. Barite is used as drilling mud because?? (High Density)
9. Luzonite (Lepanto Mine, Benguet)
10. Luzonite polymorph (Enargite)
11. Being mined in Almaden Spain (Cinnabar)
12. Pathfinders used for Au-py-spl-tennantite assemblage (Zn, Cu, As, Sb)
13. Probability percentage for petroleum given percent chance of Source, Reservoir, Seal,
and Trap
14. Break-even petroleum at current? Recovery
15. Prod rate in BOPD=?, Given: production cost-$35/Barrel, Price-$55/Barrel, B. Production
Rate-6000 BOPD (30% from contractor something, 60% govt share)
16. Most expensive phase of exploration; needs careful planning... (Sample analysis, field
survey and sampling...)
17. Something about skewness, plot in what diagram? (Lognormal distribution)
18. Geophysical measurements to physical attributes observable something something? (
numerical ...)
19. Amalgatolite is a?? (filter mineral)
20. Horizontal passage along the vein (drift)
21. Given contour map, determine strike, dip, and thickness (elevations: 250m, 270m,
275m) Vein dipping NE (downstream (collar elevation: 270m; vein encountered at
thickness 223 - 218 ish basta - 1.8m, density - 2.7 g/cm3))
22. (Maraming galing AdU reviewer, also Rupa)
23. Metallurgy, extracting gold in electrum, nitric acid to remove silver, gold separated
called: (cupellation)
24. Low grade copper and gold extraction (heap leaching, bulk flotation)
25. Not good in selecting areas for exploration (fiscal and legal areas of mineralization)
26. Geochemical sampling survey, sampling always should be (on the same horizon, on the
same depth,...)
27. Given: 1.1 m vein measured on channel sampling with assay of 7%, dip=60°, minimum
stoping width-1.0 m. Determine assay of the ore, true width, and. .
28. Not a quartz variety precious stone (jasper)
29. Banded coal (clarain)
30. Questions about max blocks on EP, Mineral Agreements, Coal, FTAA Something about
stakeholders not to develop (dependence and paternalism)
31. Coal yearly exemption how many percent (50, 60, 70, 90)
32. Argyle mine pink diamond host: (lamproite, kimberlite)
33. __:Intergenerational Equity: : _:Intragenerational Equity (Sustainable Development,
Environmental Preservation, Social Justice)
34. Anorthosite:___::____Diamond (Ilmenite, Kimberlite)
35. First journal published by the GSP (The Philippine Geologist)
36. An employee or group of employees filed a complaint to the company, in good will, to
illegal or misconduct doings by another employee... (Whistleblowing, transparency)
37. Questions about technical geologic reports:
38. Which should be capitalized (Name of formation only)
39. Where should the description on figures be placed (below the figure)
40. Mineralium Depositia? Published by? (Society of Economic Geologists, Reserche
Minere Something)
41. Not important in geochemical dispersion analysis (mode, range, quartile, variance)
42. Guano permit max hectares (2, 5, 9)
43. Coal operation and production _ years (10, 15, 25)
44. Correlation coefficient closest to (1, 0, -1, 2)
45. Textures related to Porphyry Copper Deposit (Framboids, stockwork, ribbon quartz, All
of these)
46. 27 Principles to guide countries in future sustainable development. defines the rights of
the people to be involved in the development of their economies, and the responsibilities
of human beings to safeguard the common environment. (Rio Declaration)
47. Porphyry copper deposit with Mo as by product (Sipalay, Negros Occidental)
48. combustion by pyrite oxidation in what coal stage (sub-bituminous, bituminous,
anthracite, peat)
49. Decreasing coal rank: (Anthracite, Bituminous, Sub-bituminous, Lignite)
50. If you were an officer, what would you do if you observed the presence of slumping in
Cherry Hills, cracks on the grounds... (Evacuate the inhabitants)
51. If you are near or at the coast line and a strong earthquake struck, and a sudden drop in
sea water level, what would you do (move to higher ground)
52. Not remote sensing (3D seismic)
53. On a deep sea sediment survey, you encounter Dispersed? Diffracted Reflected
Surface, what does it imply (oil saturation, freshwater, tectonic fracture)
54. PMRC question basta yung signed by (Securities and Exchange Commission)
55. To be fair to the mining contractor, government, and mineral lands owner, royalties shall
be based on? (Net smelter rate, gross output? on the market, FOB of minerals, Net
revenue of contractor?)
56. Refractory chromite is characterized by (Chromia>30%, Alumina+chromia>57%,
silica<6%)
57. In absence of splitting sampling, which is used? (Crushing and grinding, coning and
quartering...)
58. Which is an aggregate (in non-metalliferous terms) (slag, conglomerate, clinker,
Portland cement)
59. In which could you mine iron (laterite, bauxite)
60. Use of magnetometers in base stations (magnetic storms, diurnal variations)
61. Base stations are used as... Except: (to protect equipment from inclement weather)
62. What does LIDAR stand for?
63. Blanc fixe is what mineral?
64. What is x-axis? (longitude, latitude, ordinate)
65. Gold beads of pre-Hispanic Filipinos
66. Largest producer of REE? (USA, China, Russia)
67. Acid rain forms because of? (methane and carbonic acid, carbon dioxide and—, )
68. Used for GPS? (WGS94, IRTF2000, )
69. Continuous series like contour lines are? (raster, vector,....)
70. All of these are items you will bring during your fieldwork, except:
71. Unit used internationally to sell and weigh Hg. (flask, gram, troy ounce)
72. British pound was based on?? (salt)
73.

You might also like