ES30: 5 - Earth's Economic Resources VOCAB

Is the name given to the final product of most uranium mills. A common type of is uranium oxide (U₃0₈)

• Raffinate

• Yellowcake

• Sylvite

• Sylvinite

Things that are different, abnormal, peculiar, or not easily classified

• Contour lines

• Geophysics

• Anomalies

• Overburden

A liquid from which impurities have been removed by solvent extraction

• Geochemistry

• Sylvinite

• Reclamation

• Raffinate

Layers of earth and rock covering the rock being mined

• Coal seam

• Strip mine

• Anomalies

• Overburden

Energy in the form of waves occurring from either naturally occurring earthquakes OR synthetic surveying methods

• Geophysics

• Seismic Waves

• Topography

• Anomalies

Is potassium chloride in natural mineral form

• sylvinite

• sylvite

• yellowcake

• coal seam

A large deposit “bed” of coal

• Drill core

• Sylvinite

• Coal seam

• Yellowcake

This is the rock cylinder removed from the ground during drilling

• drill core

• contour lines

• coal seam

• overburden

Variations in elevation

• contour lines

• topography

• strip mine

• reclamation

The non-invasive investigation of subsurface conditions in the Earth through measuring, analyzing and interpreting physical fields at the surface

• Geochemistry

• Geophysics

• seismic waves

• Brine