UNIT 7: MINING and INDUSTRIAL AREAS

What are industrial rocks?

• Fossil fuels (coal, oil and natural gas) used to produce energy

• Useful minerals and strategic minerals

• Raw minerals

What are useful rocks?

• Rocks used mainly in construction (limestone, marble, gypsum, clay, salt)

• Carbon, petroleum and natural gas

• Diamonds, emeralds and sapphires

What are useful minerals?

• Lime, marble, plaster, clay and salt

• Iron, copper and lead

• Uranium, coltan and cobalt

What are strategic minerals?

• Lime, marble, plaster, clay and salt

• Iron, copper and lead

• Uranium, coltan and cobalt

What are the main characteristics of mining in Spain today?

• Spain is one of the wealthiest countries with regard to mining

• It has depleted all of its mining resources

• Because of the cost of extracting minerals, it is now more economical to import the majority of minerals needed here

Which country today has the most mining resources?

• USA

• China

• Russia

Which country is the main producer of carbon?

• USA

• China

• Russia

Which country is the main producer of iron?

• USA

• China

• Russia

What is renewable energy?

• Energy that breaks down the atoms in uranium

• Energy that transforms raw materials into energetic products

• Resources that are inexhaustible because they regenerate constantly

What are the main sources of renewable energy?

• Nuclear and hydroelectric

• Coal, petroleum and natural gas

• Solar, hydroelectric and eolic