What are the main differences between diorite and basalt?
What is a mineral? And what mineral structures can be found in nature? Make a list of the minerals you saw on the web site that impressed you most.
What metals are used to produce brass and bronze?
What people discovered glass? And how did they?
Suppose you want to find and exploit a marble quarry. What are the first steps to be taken? And then what tools will you use to quarry the stone?
Describe what a blast furnace is composed of, what it is for and how it works.
Why is asbestos no longer used to make insulating materials?
Make a list of the features that distinguish metamorphic rocks from sedimentary rocks.
What are the products of the subsurface of which Italy is the world’s greatest supplier?
Describe the processes that lead to the formation of metamorphic, sedimentary and magmatic rocks.
What is a "self-reclaimed" quarry?
What does the exploitation and development of on ore body consist of?
How many tons of zinc, copper and carbon are consumed every year across the world?
What is barite used to make?
Where does most of the lead used across the world come from?
Describe how man used iron after its discovery up to current applications.
What mining technique did the Egyptians use about 5,000 years ago? How many types of quarry exploitation do you know?
How do they differ from each other?
What rocks and ores are most commonly found in the Earth’s crust?
What are polymetal nodules? Where are they?
What natural environments are most damaged by quarrying?
Through what magma processes are metamorphic rocks formed? And what about sedimentary rocks?
Supposing you wanted to exploit limestone from the slope of a mountain, how would you exploit the material while taking care not to damage the surrounding area?
Describe the main features of pumice and how it is used.
What quarries are suitable as waste disposal grounds?
What metals are produced from the following ores: bauxite, pitchblende, chalcopyrite, cinnabar, hematite?
Through what magma processes are metamorphic rocks formed? And what about sedimentary rocks?
