Download Porphyry Copper Deposits

Monday 1/9/17
•Copy this week’s schedule into your
assignment notebook
•Notebook Entry: Estimate how many
pounds of copper you will use in your
lifetime.
• The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) estimates that every American born in
2008 will use 1,309 pounds of copper during their lifetime for
necessities, lifestyles and health.
Reminder
Vocabulary Cards are
due tomorrowmineral, crystal,
inorganic
3 TYPES OF MINING
Underground Mining =
used to access minerals
VERY far below the
surface.
Strip Mining = used
to mine minerals
that are located
close to the surface.
Open Pit Mining= used
to extract resources at
the surface, but can go
deeper
Natural Resource
• Materials made from Earth’s
processes that we mine from
the Earth for our use.
• Ore = A naturally occurring
solid material from which a
metal or valuable mineral can
be profitably extracted.
Research Question: Why is copper only
found in certain parts of the world?
Part 2: Evidence Card
Analysis
• Work with your tablemates to analyze the two
evidence cards.
• Answer the questions in your packet using complete
sentences!
Porphyry
Copper Deposits
The subduction of oceanic crust results in making
hydrothermal solutions that eventually harden near the
surface forming mineral deposits.
Sediment-Hosted Copper Deposits
Water seeps
into the
group and
pulls
Copper (CU)
elements
from the
rock.
Research Question: Why is copper only
found in certain parts of the world?
Part 3: Global Copper
Distribution
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Work with your tablemates to analyze Evidence Card A
Answer the questions in your packet using complete
sentences!
Exit Ticket: The purpose today was…
What was
the purpose
of today’s
lesson?