Types of Resources

Renewable Non-renewable

Make a list of five non-renewable resources with the people at your table. Then make a list of five renewable resources.

Discuss

How: Rare & Precious Minerals Usually concentrated near igneous rock

– a place where molten rock has filled cracks in the earth’s crust.

Water and minerals are compressed between layers of igneous rock, the minerals change into precious-more-dense metals.

Sometimes mix with

water molecules.

Types of Mining

Hard rock mining involves digging in igneous and metamorphic rockUsually to get iron, gold, silver etc.

Soft rock mining involves digging in sedimentary rockUsually to get soft materials like coal, oil and

potash

Ekati Diamond Mine

Ekati Diamond mine is located in an igneous and metamorphic zone. What kind of mining is done here?

How: Oil and Natural Gas

Over millions of years, tiny animals called plankton died and were caught between layers of soil.

Contain lots of CO2 and over time, bacteria and heat (100C) broke down the plankton into kerogen and eventually oil.

Oil Useful oil resources

are found when fossil fuels accumulate within porous rock.

The lower layers of rock usually have high concentrations of salt, which block the seepage of oil deeper.

Watch the VID

Mining Coltan in the DRCWho profits from Coltan mining?

○ Corporations and the militaryHow young are some workers? What do

they get paid?○ 13, $2-3

What are some of the dangers for the miners?○ Bad air, collapse, death, murder