Your friend Angela tells you about a field trip that she went on and learned about mining. She and her classmates had the opportunity to harvest minerals from a local river. They used pans to scoop the materials from the water and washed and shook the pans to separate the minerals from rocks and other debris. Unfortunately, she and her classmates were not allowed to keep souvenirs. What type of mining did Angela and her classmates participate in? (1 point)

Question

Your friend Angela tells you about a field trip that she went on and learned about mining. She and her classmates had the opportunity to harvest minerals from a local river. They used pans to scoop the materials from the water and washed and shook the pans to separate the minerals from rocks and other debris. Unfortunately, she and her classmates were not allowed to keep souvenirs. What type of mining did Angela and her classmates participate in? (1 point)
Responses

placer mining
placer mining

surface mining
surface mining

drilling rocks
drilling rocks

underground mining

GPT-4o mini · Answer

Angela and her classmates participated in **placer mining**. This method involves extracting valuable minerals from riverbeds or sediments, typically using techniques like panning, which they employed to separate minerals from other materials.