Mining Word Wall Vocabulary (2024)

Print out these Mining Word Wall Vocabulary cards and cut them along the line. Stick them up around your room to immerse your students in the content specific vocabulary.

Words include:

mining,coal,gold,oil,crude oil,oil plant,oil refinery,open cut mine,underground mining,acid drainage control,backfilled,bad waste,benches,blasting,buffer zone,capping,capping material,chemical composition,classification,clean runoff,contaminated,crushed ore,crushing plant,crust material,dangerous materials,decommissioning,deep diamond drilling,density,directional drilling,disposal,drainage,drilling equipment,drill rig,earthworks,environmental impact,Environmental Impact Statement (EIS),Environmental Management Plan (EMP),environmental protection,erosion,excavate,excavation equipment,exploration,Feasibility study,field work,Gas plant,geological layers,geology,hazardous wastes disposal,horizontal drilling,infrastructure,land restoration,landslides,mill,miner,Natural Gas,petroleum,post mine rehabilitation,Processing Plant,quarry,refined,sedimentary basins,shaft,strip mining,stripping,surface treatment,test drilling andwaste management.