A
- accrual accounting
- adit
- ADR (asset depreciating range)
- aeromagnetic survey
- AFC (armoured face conveyor)
- air core drilling
- All Industrials Index
- All Ordinaries Index
- All Resources Index
- alluvial gold
- altered
- American-style option
- amine
- amortisation
- anomaly
- anticline
- API (American Petroleum Institute)
- arbitrage
- ash
- ash fusion test
- assay
- assay laboratory
- asset
- asset impairment
- asset life
- asset register
- asset-based valuation
- attributable production
- auger drilling
- Australian Stock Exchange (ASX)
- autoclave
- average grade
- average mine life
B
- backfill
- backhoe
- baghouse
- balance sheet
- ball mill
- banded iron formation (BIF)
- bankable feasibility study (BFS)
- base metal
- batch processing
- beneficiation
- berm
- bitumen
- blast
- blast furnace
- blasting agent
- blister copper
- block cave mining
- block model
- bond work index (BWI)
- bonus stripping
- borehole
- breccia
- brownfields exploration
- bucket-wheel excavator
- bulk commodity
- bulk density
- bulk mining
- bull market
- bullion
- by-product credit
C
- CAE method
- capital cost estimate
- capital intensity
- capitalised exploration
- carbon tax
- carbon-in-leach (CIL)
- carbon-in-pulp (CIP)
- carbon-in-solution (CIS)
- carbonate
- cash cost
- cashflow
- cathode
- CBM (coalbed methane)
- CDE (clean development mechanism)
- CFR (cost and freight)
- chalcopyrite
- channel sampling
- charge
- chartered accountant
- chert
- chlorite
- CIF (cost, insurance and freight)
- cip plant
- circular economy
- cleavage
- close spaced drilling
- coal
- coal beneficiation
- coal grades
- coal measure
- coal preparation plant (CPP)
- coal reserves
- coal seam
- coal seam gas (CSG)
- coal washing
- coalescence
- coarse ore stockpile
- code of ethics
- coking coal
- collar
- collateral
- combustible minerals
- commodity
- commodity cycle
- competent person
- composite grade
- composite sample
- compressive strength
- concentrate
- concentrator
- concession
- conglomerate
- conservation bond
- consolidated entity
- consumables
- contabilidad de devengo
- contract miner
- conventional mining
- conveyor
- cookie cutter pits
- copper concentrate
- core
- core diameter
- core logging
- core loss
- corporate governance
- correlation coefficient
- cost curve
- cost inflation
- cost of capital
- country risk
- crusher
- crushing circuit
- cut-off grade
- cyanidation
- cycle time
D
- depletion
- deposit
- derivative
- development (mining)
- development capital
- diamond drilling
- dilution
- discount rate
- discounted cashflow (DCF)
- discovery cost
- disposal area
- disseminated ore
- divestment
- dividend
- dragline
- drainage
- drawpoint
- drift
- drill and blast
- drill core
- drill hole
- drill pattern
- drilling contractor
- drilling density
- drilling metre
- drilling mud
- drilling rig
- drop cut
- dumper
- dumping
- dyke
E
- economic cut-off grade
- economic evaluation
- electrowinning
- element
- elution
- EM survey (electromagnetic)
- emissions trading
- encumbrance
- energy commodity
- engineering geology
- engineering judgement
- environmental bond
- environmental impact assessment (EIA)
- epithermal deposit
- equity
- equity ratio
- ESG (environmental, social & governance)
- estate
- eutectic point
- EV (enterprise value)
- exclusion zone
- exploration decline
- exploration licence
- exploration model
- exploration permit
- export parity
- extrusive rock
F
- fault
- feasibility study
- feed grade
- ferrous metal
- fertilizer mineral
- fines
- fire assay
- fissure
- fixed plant
- flitch mining
- float (financial)
- flotation
- flow sheet
- fluid inclusion
- flux
- FMI (Foreign Mining Investment)
- fold
- footwall
- forensic geology
- forward selling
- fracture
- free cashflow (FCF)
- free digging
- freight-on-board (FOB)
- froth
- froth flotation
- fuel surcharge
- fugitive dust
G
- galería de acceso (adit)
- gangue
- geochemical anomaly
- geochemical survey
- geochemistry
- geochronology
- geologist
- geometallurgy
- geomorphology
- geophysical survey
- geophysics
- geotechnical engineer
- geotechnical logging
- geothermal gradient
- geothermal resource
- germanium
- gibbs free energy
- glacial till
- grade
- grade control
- grade-tonnage curve
- granite
- gravity concentration
- greenfields exploration
- grind size
- grizzly
- groundwater
- gypsum
H
I
- igneous rock
- Ilmenite
- in-situ recovery (ISR)
- indicated resource
- indirect costs
- indium
- induced polarisation (IP)
- inferred resource
- infill drilling
- insolation
- interburden
- interim rehabilitation
- internal rate of return (IRR)
- inventory
- investment risk
- ion adsorption clay
- ion exchange
- iron ore
- ISA (International Seabed Authority)
- ISCG (International Study Group on Copper)
- isograd
J
K
L
M
- maghemite
- magmatic deposit
- magnetic survey
- magnetite
- major hazard facility (MHF)
- malleable
- man portable rig
- manifold
- map scale
- market capitalisation
- market risk
- massive sulphide
- measured resource
- metal accounting
- metal balance
- metal equivalent
- metallic minerals
- metalliferous
- metallurgical coal
- metallurgical recovery
- metallurgy
- meteoric water
- micron
- mine call factor (MCF)
- mine closure
- mine design
- mine development
- mine dilution
- mine scheduling
- mine shaft
- mine subsidence
- mine waste
- mineable reserves
- mineral economics
- mineral liberation
- mineral processing
- mineral reserve
- mineral resource
- mineral sands
- mineralisation
- minesite rehabilitation
- mining contractor
- mining dilution factor
- mining fleet
- mining geology
- mining lease
- mining method
- mining mix
- mining model
- mining reagent
- mining recovery
- mining right
- mining sequence
- mining software
- mobile equipment
- moisture content
- molybdenum
- mudstone
- multi-element analysis
- multiple regression
N
O
P
- PAG (potentially acid generating)
- pan concentrate
- panel cave
- panel mining
- partial oxidation
- particle density
- particle size distribution (PSD)
- pass (drill)
- patent ore
- peat
- pegmatite
- pellet feed
- pelletising
- percolation
- permeability
- phreatic surface
- phyllite
- placer deposit
- plagioclase
- planning horizon
- plant availability
- plant recovery
- plant utilisation
- plate tectonics
- platinum group metals (PGMs)
- plug (igneous)
- plutonic rock
- PNECs (predicted no-effect concentrations)
- porosity
- porphyritic texture
- porphyry deposit
- portal (mine)
- potash
- potential field survey
- PPM (parts per million)
- PQ core
- pre-concentration
- pre-feasibility study (PFS)
- pre-strip
- precious metal
- precipitate
- pressure oxidation (POX)
- primary crusher
- primary mineralisation
- probable reserve
- prospección aeromagnética
- proved reserve
- pyrite
- pyrometallurgy
- pyrrhotite
Q
R
- ramp (decline)
- rare earth elements (REEs)
- recovery
- recovery curve
- redox potential (Eh)
- refining charge
- rehabilitation bond
- rekrystallisation (metamorphic)
- relaxation (geomechanics)
- remote sensing
- resource classification
- respirable dust
- retreat mining
- reverse circulation drilling (RC)
- reverted ore
- revolving fund
- rezoning
- rheology
- ridge (geology)
- rifting
- roaster
- rock bolt
- rock breaker
- rock mass rating (RMR)
- rock mechanics
- rockburst
- ROM (run of mine)
- roof support
- room-and-pillar mining
- roster plant
- rotary drilling
- rougher flotation
- run-off
S
- sag mill (semi-autogenous mill)
- salars (evaporite basins)
- sampling bias
- saturation index
- scandium
- schist
- scooptram (LHD)
- screening
- scrubbing
- sedimentary rock
- seismic survey
- selective mining
- semi-variogram
- settling rate
- shaft collar
- shaft sinking
- shear zone
- shearing (mining)
- sheeted veins
- shelly sand
- shrinkage stoping
- siderite
- sieve analysis
- silica (SiO₂)
- silicate mineral
- siliceous
- sill (igneous)
- sill pillar
- skarn deposit
- slope angle
- slope failure
- slurry
- SME (Society for Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration)
- smelter
- solution mining
- solvent extraction (SX)
- specific gravity (SG)
- spectral analysis
- spoil (waste)
- spot price
- stability analysis
- stainless steel
- stope
- stope design
- stope dilution
- stope fill
- strata
- stratabound deposit
- stratiform deposit
- strip mining
- strip ratio
- structural geology
- sub-economic resource
- sub-grade ore
- sub-level caving
- sub-outcrop
- subcrop
- suction dredging
- sulphide
- sulphur
- supergene enrichment
- suspended solids
- sustainable mining
- SX-EW (solvent extraction–electrowinning)
T
- tailings
- tailings dam
- tailings density
- tailings facility
- talus
- tantalum
- tectonic setting
- tellurides
- temperature gradient
- tenement
- thermal coal
- thermal expansion
- thermogravimetric analysis (TGA)
- thickener
- thixotropy
- throw (fault)
- thrust fault
- tin (Sn)
- tonnage
- tonne (metric)
- tonne-mile
- topsoil
- torque (drilling)
- total dissolved solids (TDS)
- trackless mining
- tramp metal
- transition zone (oxide–sulphide)
- transitional ore
- trap rock
- trend (geological)
- trommel
- TSF (tailings storage facility)
- tuff
- tungsten (W)
- turbidity
U
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W
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