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    The document discusses the production process of non-renewable energy resources. It involves four main stages: exploration to find resource deposits, excavation or mining to extract the resource, extraction to separate the resource from waste material, and refining to produce a final product. Non-renewable resources include organic materials like oil, gas, coal, and inorganic materials like uranium. The production process aims to identify resource locations, extract the resource, and process it through techniques like mineral processing, hydrometallurgy, or pyrometallurgy to produce a final energy product.

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    Description of the mining processes to take an ore and produce the desired mineral

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    The document discusses the production process of non-renewable energy resources. It involves four main stages: exploration to find resource deposits, excavation or mining to extract the resource, extraction to separate the resource from waste material, and refining to produce a final product. Non-renewable resources include organic materials like oil, gas, coal, and inorganic materials like uranium. The production process aims to identify resource locations, extract the resource, and process it through techniques like mineral processing, hydrometallurgy, or pyrometallurgy to produce a final energy product.

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    The document discusses the production process of non-renewable energy resources. It involves four main stages: exploration to find resource deposits, excavation or mining to extract the resource, extraction to separate the resource from waste material, and refining to produce a final product. Non-renewable resources include organic materials like oil, gas, coal, and inorganic materials like uranium. The production process aims to identify resource locations, extract the resource, and process it through techniques like mineral processing, hydrometallurgy, or pyrometallurgy to produce a final energy product.

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    MIME-320 Extraction of energy resources Winter 2013

    Renewable:

    wind, solar, hydro-power, hydrogen, ocean, geothermal, bio-fuels Non-renewable: oil, gas, coal, tar sand, oil shale, uranium

    Organic

    resources: oil, gas, tar sand, oil shale, coal Inorganic resources: uranium
    The procedure: Exploration Excavation Extraction Refining

    The production procedure of non-renewable energy consists of the mentioned stages

    The

    main purpose of exploration stage is to find the trace of energy resource on earth According to the properties of energy resource, several methods are applied such as geophysics and geochemistry Inorganic resources usually known as ore deposit such as uranium deposit Organic resources usually known as reserve such as oil reserve

    Ore

    is combination of some minerals that according to economical criteria would make benefits Technically, oil and tar sand can consider as minerals as well as coal and uranium

    Mineral

    is natural combination of elements with a certain molecular structure(s)

    Pyrite FeS2

    Minerals

    are classified to: Inorganic: most of the minerals are inorganic such as uraninite, pyrite, etc. Organic: oil, coal, tar sand

    Uraninite

    Rock

    is natural combination of minerals, which made according to geological processes

    Ore

    is called to a rocks or mineral that makes economical benefits Ore deposit is called to a set of rocks or minerals in very large scale that makes economical benefits

    Elements

    : Fe, Cu, S Minerals: Pyrite FeS2, Chalcocite Cu2S

    Valuable Mineral Chalcocite Cu2S

    Waste Mineral or Gangue Pyrite FeS2

    Deposit
    Pyrite+ Chalcocite

    exploration

    Economics: metal price, extraction cost

    Chalcocite

    Ore

    Mine

    Surface

    mining For the ore deposit on the surface Underground mining For the ore deposit under the ground

    ORE

    Mining
    Final Product

    Extraction

    Refining

    Mineral Processing

    HydroMetallurgy

    PyroMetallurgy

    ORE

    Mineral Processing

    VALUABLE MINERAL or CONCENTRATE

    WASTE MINERAL or TAILING

    Mineral

    processing takes place at the mine site on surface The mineral processing plant is called a concentrator, or a mill The valuable mineral product is the concentrate The gangue product is the tailings

    HydroMetallurgy Example: leaching a copper mineral CuO + H2SO4


    solid

    CuSO4 + H2O
    solution

    PyroMetallurgy

    Example: smelting an iron mineral


    1500o C

    2 Fe2O3 + 3 C

    4 Fe + 3 CO2

    Mineral Processing

    Hydrometallurgy

    Pyrometallurgy

    Chemical Treatment

    Oil
    Tar sand Coal Uranium

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