Classes
	Syllabus
	1 History of Mining
	2 Using Maps
	3 Geological Exploration
	4 Geophysical Exploration
	5 Geochemical Exploration
	6 Secondary Exploration
	7 Open Pit Mining
	8 *****Mid Term*****
	9 Strip Mining & Placer Mining
	10 Underground Mining
	11 Permits and Laws
	12 Environment Impact
	13 Jobs and Tools
	14 Mineral Economics
	15 Reclamation
	16**** Final Exam*****
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During different ages in history, different minerals benefited and affected societies.  Using the internet resources listed below or other resources available to you, finish the chart to show how different periods in history were affected by the availability of minerals. An example has been started for you using the Bronze Age.

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Age ( Time Period)	Mineral ( Metal)	How  the metal benefited  society of that age.
Example: 2000-1200 BC Bronze Age	Gold- Silver, Coal, Gold     Iron	Peru: Gold changed techniques of metal working. China: Silver and gold were used to create acupuncture needles. The coal was used for fuel. Thailand: More advanced tools were created
1200 BC 5000 BC. Iron Age
1050-1300 AD. Middle Ages
1970 AD.-Present Computer Age
(You pick a  time period or age that interests you and fill in this one.)

Essay Questions

1. Describe the correlation between the development of mining and cultural progress throughout world history.

2. Describe 3 ways mining has continued to benefit societies throughout history.

3. What technological improvements helped changed the way people mined in early Africa? How did these affect the mining industry?

Resources that may help with information needed for the chart or essay questions:

Copper in the Middle Ages and Renaissance
A good picture of copper mining, metallurgy, and use in the Middle Ages and Renaissance
http://www.unr.edu/sb204/geology/middleag.html

Copper Recovery in the Middle Ages
.. Europe became a chaotic place with no substantial mining taking place until the
10th century.. By the middle ages the Moors were living in Spain. They had ...
www.rhosybolbach.freeserve.co.uk/midages.htm

Gold Rush Chronicles
This article includes info on history of gold and its uses  to the present.
http://comspark.com/chronicles/gold.shtml

Important Dates in the History of Gold
Gold probably was found on the ground and used by prehistoric man as a tool.
Highly sophisticated gold art objects and jewelry discovered by archaeologists in the
Royal Tombs at Ur, in what is now Southern Iraq, date back to around 3000 BC.
Similarly, goldsmiths of the Chavin civilization in Peru were making
ornaments by hammering and embossing gold by 1200 BC.
http://www.exquisite.on.ca/goldhistory.htm

Bronze Age,
period in the development of technology when metals were first used regularly in the manufacture of tools and weapons.
http://www.encyclopedia.com/articlesnew/01894.html

Ancient Silver and Gold
Background history on silver and gold.
http://www-geology.ucdavis.edu/~GEL115/115ch6.html