Energy & mineral resources

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What is a kerogen?
a mixture of organic compounds in varying compositions
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What is a resevoir rock?
a sedimentary rock with spaces for oil/gas
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What is a trap?
an impermeable layer which prevents the rising of hydrocarbons
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What is a resource?
a deposit that has already been discovered and can be legally and economically exploited at the current time
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What is a reserve?
the entire amount of a material, including uneconomic and undiscovered deposits) that may become available for use in the future
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What is the expansionist view?
the idea that resources expand with entrepreneurist policies and shrink with regulation, war, and taxation
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What are the environmental issues of tar sands in Canada?
extraction requires heat and water, contributes to global warming admissions.
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Characteristics of shale
conventional source rock with high porosity but low permeability (addition work required)
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Describe the process of fracking
pumping water, sand, and chemicals into rocks at high pressure to open fractures in the shale
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What are volcanogenic massive sulphide (VMS) deposits?
significant repositories of copper, zinc, and lead resulted from seafloor hydrothermal activity in the ancient geological record
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Types of ore
Disseminated, vein, cumulate, placer deposits, banded iron formations (BIFs)
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How do reserves become resources?
If energy cost of extraction is minimised
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How do resources become reserves?
demand increases, prices increase, resources become reserves (protected)
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