This document provides an overview of a Mining Matters Teachers Workshop that will take place on April 27, 2015 at Dynamic Earth in Sudbury, Ontario. The workshop will include activities that teach teachers about the relationship between minerals, rocks, and everyday products; the types of mines in Ontario and their importance to the province's economy; and a design challenge activity where teachers learn to classify and identify rocks. Teachers will have the opportunity to examine rock and mineral samples using testing equipment and match the samples to specific minerals and products.

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Mining Matters Teachers
Workshop
Wednesday, April 27, 2015
Dynamic Earth, Sudbury, ON
PROSPECTORS AND DEVELOPERS ASSOCIATION OF CANADA MINING MATTERS

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Overview of the session
• What’s yours is Mined : Products matched to
Minerals and Rocks properties
• Mining matters to Ontario : types of mines
and Ontario mining industry
• Power to the People Design Challenge
– Classification and identification of rocks

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become
Elements to Rocks
Minerals are the building blocks of rocks.
Chemical
Elements
Minerals
Rocks
bond to become

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Activity: What’s your is mined
• After the overview of the tests, use
equipment package to make observations
of the minerals
• Refer to the properties of minerals chart to
match each sample to a mineral name
• Use the Product Matching cards to find the
associated product of your mineral or rock
sample

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Mining matters to Ontario
Surface Mine
Used to extract ore
and minerals close to
the surface.
Requires processsing
(concentrating,
smelting, refining)
Underground
Mine
Used to extract ore
and minerals deeper
underground.
Requires processsing
(concentrating,
smelting, refining)
Quarry
Used to obtain,
gravel, dimension
stone, aggregate,
sand.
No processing
required though
crushing is
sometimes necessary
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Mining matters to Ontario

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Power to the People
• What are the Renewable Energy sources in
Canada ?
• Minerals and aggregates used
• Design of a Wind Turbine

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Resources for you
• Let’s explore the kit !
• Useful links:
• Mining matters.ca
• Mining Association of Ontario: Teacher Mining
Tour
• Mining Association of Canada
• Canada Geological Survey
• GGEN Member
• Mineral Education Coalition

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Reflection
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The Three Rock Groups
IGNEOUS
Intrusive
• solidifies within the earth
• slow cooling means
mineral grains have time to
grow
• coarse grain
Extrusive
• solidifies near or on the
surface
• rapid cooling means
minerals have only short
time to form
• fine grain
SEDIMENTARY
Clastic
• made up of pieces (clasts)
of pre-existing
• particle size from
microscopic clay to huge
boulders
Chemical
• formed by chemical
precipitation
Biological
• may from accumulated
carbon-rich plant material
or from deposits of animal
shells
METAMORPHIC
Foliated
•forms when pressure
squeezes the fat or elongate
minerals within a rock so
they become aligned
• develop platy sheet -like
structure
Non-foliated
•no matter how much
pressure is applied, grains
will not align
• contact metamorphism,
magma intrudes into pre-
existing rock; baked by heat