Use the article provided answer the following questions

Use the article provided answer the following questions about Mining 1. What are the two types of mines? 2. Which type of mines is most commonly in use today? 3. What must a company do BEFORE it mines an area of land? 4. What happens to the land AFTER it has been mined? 5. What is an orphan mine? 6. What is the government doing about orphan mines?

Cookie Mining Game

Objectives ● ● Develop your mine Safeguard the environment Make as much money as possible You must consider economics of mining to provide raw materials with a minimum impact on the environment.

Considerations ● To make the most money, or be profitable, you must: ● ● ● Make more money than you spend Your cost of chips must be higher than your costs of equipment and mining Consider these factors when deciding what property and equipment to buy!

Step 1: Purchasing ● MINE PROPERTY = cookie ● Select which property you want Write the type of cookie on your spreadsheet in line 1 Write the price of cookie on your sheet in line 2 ● DO NOT EAT THE COOKIE!! ● ●

Cookie Property Grid ● ● Place your cookie on the graph paper Draw a circle around your cookie Count the number of squares inside your cookie circle Record this number in line 3 of your spreadsheet

Step 2: Purchasing ● EQUIPMENT: toothpicks, paperclips ● ● ● You may purchase as many as desired You can mix and match tool types If a tool breaks, YOU MUST BUY ANOTHER TO REPLACE IT Record amount of each type of equipment in lines 5, 6, and 7 on your spread sheet Multiply by tool cost and complete the $ boxes

Mining Time! ● ● ● Mine your cookie on the graph paper Do not use your fingers…only mining equipment allowed!!! Extract as many chocolate chips as you can…put chips on a piece of paper You have 5 minutes maximum Each minute you mine is $1. 00 ● Time is Money!

5 minutes to Mine! ● You must pay $1. 00 for each partial minute you spend mining! ● ● Ex… 3 minutes and 20 seconds = $4. 00 Record your minutes in line 8 and complete the $ box Class Timer Complete line 9

Income value of chips ● ● ● We will measure the mass of your chips Bring the chips on the paper to the balance to be measured Multiply the mass by $10. 00 and complete line 10

Reclamation Cost ● Look at your remains of the cookie on the graph paper Count the number of squares over your initial count Each additional square costs $1. 00 ● Add up the squares and complete line 11 ● ●

Profit or Loss Statement ● Fill in your values in the spreadsheet Add or subtract according to the sheet ● Were you profitable? ? ? ●