Mining - Revision history

RichardWSmith: /* Dust Mining */

2024-07-05T23:56:50Z

Dust Mining

2024-07-05T23:55:42Z

Dust Mining: Added sulphur

2024-07-05T22:36:11Z

Dust Mining: Added link

2024-07-05T22:34:01Z

Added link

2024-07-04T17:17:38Z

Dust Mining

2024-07-04T11:15:32Z

Resources: Ores formed from water and vulcanism.

2024-07-04T10:53:43Z

Secondary use for mining galleries: increasing gravity with circular railway.

2024-07-04T10:49:59Z

Dust Mining

2024-07-04T10:49:05Z

Surface Mining Methods: Added dust mining.

2024-07-04T10:45:21Z

Secondary use for mining galleries: Added storm shelter for solar storms.

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 ===[[Dust]] Mining===
-Martian [[Dust|dust]] is distributed everywhere by the wind, and it is iron rich.  Silicon, sulphur, magnesium, calcium, oxygen and other elements can be extracted from it.  It can be used to make lower quality bricks with no modification, or better [[Brick|bricks]] with modest additives.  Any place where the wind deposits dust could be an easy to mine location, which will gradually be refilled.  The refill rate may be lower than the extraction rate for larger settlements.
+Martian [[Dust|dust]] is distributed everywhere by the wind, and it is iron rich.  Silicon, sulphur, magnesium, calcium, oxygen and other elements can be extracted from it.  It can be used to make low quality bricks with no modification, or better [[Brick|bricks]] with modest additives or sintering with heat.  Any place where the wind deposits dust could be an easy to mine location, which will gradually be refilled.  The refill rate may be lower than the extraction rate for larger settlements.
 ==Subsurface Mining Methods==

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 ===[[Dust]] Mining===
-Martian [[Dust|dust]] is distributed everywhere by the wind, and it is iron rich.  Silicon, magnesium, calcium, oxygen and other elements can be extracted from it.  It can be used to make lower quality bricks with no modification, or better [[Brick|bricks]] with modest additives.  Any place where the wind deposits dust could be an easy to mine location, which will gradually be refilled.  The refill rate may be lower than the extraction rate for larger settlements.
+Martian [[Dust|dust]] is distributed everywhere by the wind, and it is iron rich.  Silicon, sulphur, magnesium, calcium, oxygen and other elements can be extracted from it.  It can be used to make lower quality bricks with no modification, or better [[Brick|bricks]] with modest additives.  Any place where the wind deposits dust could be an easy to mine location, which will gradually be refilled.  The refill rate may be lower than the extraction rate for larger settlements.
 ==Subsurface Mining Methods==

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 When resources are available close to the surface, a strip mine is the most efficient method of extraction. The layers of [[regolith]] covering the resource are taken away, and the exposed ore is mined. This method is also called open-pit mining, or regolith harvesting, depending on the depth of the work.
-===Dust Mining===
+===[[Dust]] Mining===
-Martian dust is distributed everywhere by the wind, and it is iron rich.  Silicon, magnesium, calcium, oxygen and other elements can be extracted from it.  It can be used to make lower quality bricks with no modification, or better [[Brick|bricks]] with modest additives.  Any place where the wind deposits dust could be an easy to mine location, which will gradually be refilled.  The refill rate may be lower than the extraction rate for larger settlements.
+Martian [[Dust|dust]] is distributed everywhere by the wind, and it is iron rich.  Silicon, magnesium, calcium, oxygen and other elements can be extracted from it.  It can be used to make lower quality bricks with no modification, or better [[Brick|bricks]] with modest additives.  Any place where the wind deposits dust could be an easy to mine location, which will gradually be refilled.  The refill rate may be lower than the extraction rate for larger settlements.
 ==Subsurface Mining Methods==

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 ===Dust Mining===
-Martian dust is distributed everywhere by the wind, and it is iron rich.  Silicon, magnesium, calcium, oxygen and other elements can be extracted from it.  It can be used to make lower quality bricks with no modification, or better bricks with modest additives.  Any place where the wind deposits dust could be an easy to mine location, which will gradually be refilled.  The refill rate may be lower than the extraction rate for larger settlements.
+Martian dust is distributed everywhere by the wind, and it is iron rich.  Silicon, magnesium, calcium, oxygen and other elements can be extracted from it.  It can be used to make lower quality bricks with no modification, or better [[Brick|bricks]] with modest additives.  Any place where the wind deposits dust could be an easy to mine location, which will gradually be refilled.  The refill rate may be lower than the extraction rate for larger settlements.
 ==Subsurface Mining Methods==

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 ===Dust Mining===
-Martian dust is distributed everywhere by the wind, and it is iron rich.  Silicon, magnesium, calcium, oxygen and other elements can be extracted from it.  It can make lower quality bricks with no modification, or better bricks with modest additives.  Any place that the wind deposits dust, could be an easy to mine location, which will gradually be refilled.
+Martian dust is distributed everywhere by the wind, and it is iron rich.  Silicon, magnesium, calcium, oxygen and other elements can be extracted from it.  It can be used to make lower quality bricks with no modification, or better bricks with modest additives.  Any place where the wind deposits dust could be an easy to mine location, which will gradually be refilled.  The refill rate may be lower than the extraction rate for larger settlements.
 ==Subsurface Mining Methods==

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 Mines are built to take advantage of the mineral concentrations created by various planetary processes.  If the resources is not sufficiently concentrated, the mining processes are not economical.  Mechanisms for mineral concentrations on Mars are mostly hypothetical and the discovery of useful bodies of ore awaits the advent of Martian geologists.
 Satellite detection has discovered potentially useful resources, such as clays.
 ==Technology==

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 [[File:Tunnel and digger.jpg|thumb|450x450px|Before and after image of a tunnel settlement.]]
 The [[artificial cave]]s created by mining can be a valuable side effect of subsurface mining. They can be used to expand the [[settlement]] with storage rooms, [[house|living rooms]], underground [[greenhouse]]s, gas container for [[energy storage]] or for storage of [[:category:chemistry|chemicals]].  They could be used as a [[Storm shelter]] during solar storms.
 ==See also==