Mineral and Power Resources

The process of taking out minerals from rocks buried under the surface of the earth is named as

• Mining

• Pumping

• Etracting

• None of the above

A rock which contains enough mineral to make it economically viable for mining is known as an?

Give an example of shafts.

• Surface Mining

• Deep Bores

• None of the above

Minerals that lie near the surface are simply dug out of the ground through a process known as Drilling

• True

• False

Metallic minerals are mostly found in:

Metamorphic and Igneous rocks.

• True

• False

Rich iron-ore deposits are found in:

• China and Malaysia

• China and India

• China and Indonesia

• All of the above

Asia has rich deposits of manganese, bauxite, nickel,zinc,copper and tungsten

• True

• False

Australia is a store house of copper

• True

• False

The ore of the metal aluminium is known as:

• Gold

• Copper

• Bauxite

• Manganese

Manganese is an important raw material for smelting of iron-ore.

• True

• False