MINING OF MINERAL RESOURCES Crossword

Small amounts of elements found in the soil.
The compounds in the soil which contain minerals
Larger quantities of ores.
How ores in deposits are removed from the earth's crust.
A valuable form of carbon which is mined.
The type of mining which involves strip mining, open pit mining and quarrying.
Mineral salts that contain potassium.
This is mined in its natural form and used as a food additive.
The ore which contains lead.
The ore which contains titanium.
The ore which contains uranium.
The ore which contains zinc.
The tunnels in underground mining.
When the mineral is removed from an ore.
Where most of our iron is mined in South Africa.
The hot burner in which iron is extracted.
The form in which carbon is added to a blast furnace.
The product of carbon and the oxygen from iron oxide.
The iron which comes directly off a blast furnace.
Iron used to make pots and engine blocks.
Iron used to make iron furniture.
Iron mixed with carbon.
Substance added to a blast furnace which comines with the sand.
Byproduct of a blast furnace which is used to make cement.
Gold is found in these layers.
Extracting gold by hand from rivers.
The first additive to gold ore to dissolve the gold.
The metal added in the gold extraction process to precipitate the gold.
The third substance added in the extraction of gold.
The solid wastes from gold mining are stored in these mine .....
The liquid wastes from gold mining are stored in ....
The number of variety of living organisms.
Mining activities are meant to leave the environment as the found it or ...... it.
The outer mantle, crust and soil.
Valuable sites with old cultural and/or biological value.
The compound in which most minerals are found.
Diamonds are formed by these.
A diamond mining city in SA
Where natural gas in mined in SA
Where most gold is mined in SA