Computing / Automation

Quiz

1. What do producers typically do when searching for property?

2. What forces an operation to look at a number of items that are sometimes overlooked?

3. Name three items a mining plan should address.

4. What are the three types of plants?

5. What type of plant is associated with quarried materials where expected life of the quarry is more than 10 years?

6. What type of plant is associated with quarried materials and sand and gravel where the expected life is less than 10 years?

7. What is defined as a combination of several machines and several techniques that are used together to produce the required products?

8. What may be the most difficult step in setting up a plant?

9. Is a mobile plant wheeled, track-mounted or can it be both?

10. Name three factors that should be considered when searching for property.

Quiz Answers

1. Conduct a market review

2. Mining plan

3. Among them ? material on property, quarry/pit plan, crushing type, plant location, truck and rail access, settling ponds, water table, mining depth, location of high-voltage power lines

4. Stationary, semi-fixed and mobile

5. Stationary plant

6. Semi-fixed plant

7. Process flow

8. Getting a permit

9. Both

10. Among them ? neighbors, minerals, access to main roads, taxes, local labor available, union or non-union labor, availability of water, water table, easements, possible archeology site and markets