t5A Cookie Mining:

Nonrenewable Mineral and Energy Resources Overburden, Spoil/Spoil Banks, Gangue, Benefi ciation, tailings, Ore, Reclamation
Ben Smith EnviScienceAP

Cookie Mining: The purpose of this simulation is to provide an inkoduction to the economics of mining and to become somewhat more familiar with the firndamental mining terms above. This will be accomplished through.purchasing a given land area (cookie real estate) and mining equipment, as well as paying for mining operations and any associated reclamation costs. In return, student-miners receive money for the ore mined. As a business, economic interests are clearly part of your overall approach, with additional interests possibly coming into play as well. Instructions: 1. Land (Cookie) Purchase: Cost : Ten cents per square; may be more or less than Mining arealCookie template in middle of "mining grid paper": Your Total Cookie/Ivlining Land Value 2. Each Miner must buy at least one mining tool, done so on credit from the "I Got You Babe Bank", a subsidiar,v of the Farmers Bank of Iowa (no bailout money accepted to date):Flat Toothpick: $2, Round Thpk: $4, Paperclip: $2.00 Equipment $ per minute 3. Mining Costs (excluding Reclamation): $1.00 Total Cost Number of Minutes Mined ...... (chips, raisins, walnuts, etc.) $2.00 per #2 pencil eraser4. Ore: Sale of mined Ore size "nuggets"/ore; therefore, "pooling/combining"(theoretically, not physically) Number of #2 Pencil-size "nuggets" = x $2 $ 5. Reclamation Costs and the Area of Cookie (Land to be Mined): Reclamation Costs: $1.00 per square over/outside the original Cookie/Land mass AND $1.00 per Every 15 Seconds of Time Used to Physically Move Mining Refuse Debris BACK into Yorn Original Cookie Mine Perimeter: Reclamation Cost is DOIIBLED (: $2 per square equivalent in the Fremont River!) x $1.00 = $ Number of Squares Outside owned land impacted* (*however micro or MACRO! ...yoS, unrealistic, but it's a simulation for Pete's sake.) Please Note: No Miner may use her or his Fingers to hold the cookie; Nor may you do a Flip-Job, though this kind of approachwould be amazing to wifiress in a real mining situation! Again, no fingers on the cookies please, this is serious mining! Ouestions: -To think about briefly1. Were the minerals evenly diskibuted? Is this parallel to reality? 2. Were you able to "restore" the land? 3. Do you think the mining process is "somewhat different" when it is known in advance that reclamation is required? 4. Coi'nment on legislation that requires reclamation and mining costs and potential impacts on the consumer down the product supply-use chain? 5. Whywas the Federal Strip Mining Reclamation and Control (SMRCA) written? What does it require? Who might support it? ..-Yes, it "may go without sayrng"..-

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