Mining and Travel Vocabulary

A place where stone, rocks or minerals are extracted from earth

• shaft

• ore

• quarry

• drilling

someone who works on a building site and whose job is to make sure that vehicles and heavy machinery are used correctly and safely:

• ore

• banksman

• bankingman

• shaftman

A coal mine and the buildings connected to it

• Quarry

• Colliery

• Mines

• Minerals

A long, narrow hole or passage.

• ore

• digger

• drilling

• shaft

Things that keep people safe.

• banksman

• helmet

• safety gears

• dump truck

Tools for digging.

• safety gears

• excavation tools

• diggers

• dump truck

A person who studies rocks.

• geologist

• banksman

• safety gear

• mineral man

A rock with metal inside- is called an ___?

A big truck that carries heavy things.

• driller

• dump truck

• excavation

• tools

The action of lifting or gathering materials with a tool or machines

• drilling

• scooping

• excavating

• searching