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Mining Glossary

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Mining Industry. This glossary contains the words people can use when they describe concepts related to the mining industry. blast verb Blow up or break apart (something solid) with explosives. Example: Quantities of solid rock had to be blasted away. fr: dynamitage Your browser does not support the audio element. diamond drilling noun A high-precision, rotary, and non-percussive drilling method that utilizes a drill bit embedded with industrial diamonds to cut through exceptionally hard materials, such as rock, reinforced concrete, and metal. Example: The exploration team used diamond drilling to collect core samples and evaluate the mineralization at depth. fr: forage au diamant Your browser does not support the audio element. drilling noun The action of making a hole in something by boring with a drill. Ex...
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 Hi my name is Xavier. I'm currently studying to become a mining technician with a specialty in operations. Already halfway through my degree at the time of writing this, I moved from my hometown (Gaspé) to Thetford mines a year and a half ago for CÉGEP. Since it is kind of a niche program, only three cities in the province of  Quebec offers it: Val-d'or, Sept-iles and as mentioned, Thetford mines. My decision wasn't difficult and I settled for the latter due to its proximity with Quebec city. Mining technology is divided into three branches: Mineralogy, exploitation (operations) and geology. If we dumb it down, geology is about finding ore, exploitation is finding a way to get it out of the ground into the transformation plant and mineralogy is transforming the ore into a concentrate of said mineral. 
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