Mining Engineering I

MINING TERMS

1. A system of bearing down coal by which compressed air, generated locally by a portable compressor at
10,000 psi, is used in releasing cylinder, which is placed in a hole drilled in the coal.
a. Hydrox c. Cardox
b. Clorox d. Airdox
2. In coal mine subsidence, this angle is assumed to bisect the angle of repose of material.
c. Pit
a. Angle of repose slope
b. Angle of draw d. Bench slope
3. The maximum slope at which a heap of any loose material will stand without sliding or come to rest when
poured on dumped in a pile or on a slope.
a. Angle of draw c. Angle of repose
b. Working slope d. Gradient slope
4. It is the portion or remainder of shot-hole found in a face often a blast has been fired.
c. Hang-
a. Bootleg fire
d. Mine-
b. Misfire fire
5. A small tunnel driven horizontally into the rock at right angles to the face. It has two or more cross-cuts
driven from it parallel to the face.
a. Cross-
cut c. Coyote dog-hole
b. Drift d. Slope
6. Sinking a number of boreholes each in different horizontal or vertical direction from a single drill set-
up.
a. Auger drilling c. Diamond drilling
b. Fan drilling d. deep well drilling
7. The process of injecting grout into crevices of rock, usually through a borehole drilled into the rock.
a. c.
Spraying Guniting
b.
Grouting d. shotcreting
8. The rising of the floor of the mine caused by its being too soft to resist the weight on the pillar.
a. Roof c. Heave
b. Floor d. Crown
9. The line defining the area in which open pit operation may be conducted to obtain maximum amount of
ore material and minimum amount of waste material.
a. Optimum pit limit c. working slope
d.
b. Bench slope Gradient
10. The cubic feet or ore pre ton in deposit.
a. Tonnage factor c. Mine head
d. Mill
b. Swell factor head
11. A smooth blasting method in which cracks for the final contour are created by blasting prior to the
drilling of the rest of the holes for the blast
pattern.
a. Perimeter blasting c. Smooth blasting
b. Pre-splitting d. secondary blasting
12. Failure of a charge to explode when expected.
c. Hang-
a. Bootleg fire
b. Misfire d. Explosion
13. Lowering of strata, including the surface due to underground excavation.
a. Rock failure c. sinking
b. Subsidence d. Mud-rush
14. A horizontal opening driven across the course of a vein or in general across the direction of the main
workings.
c. Dog-
a. Ramp hole
b. Tunnel d.
 Crosscut
15. A distinct pause or pre-determined time between detonation or initiation impulses, to permit the firing
of explosives charges separated.
a. Delay blasting c. delay
b. Delay detonator d. Delay element
16. An explosive material containing substantial amounts of oxidizers dissolved in waste, surrounded by an
immiscible fuel.
a. c.
Glycerin Ammonia
d.
b. Fuel oil Emulsion
17. A designation given to a delay detonator to show its relative or absolute delay time in a given series.
a. Delay interval c. Delay period
b. Delay element d. Delay series
18. The wall or rock under a vein.
a. Host c.
rock Footwall
b. Country rock d. hanging wall
19. Explosives that are permitted for fuse in gassy and dusty atmosphere.
c. Permissible
a. ANFO explosives
d. Commercial
b. Ammoniac dynamite explosives
20. The airborne suspension of solid particles from the products of detonation and deflagration.
a. Dust c. Fumes
b. Smoke d. Gases
21. Applied to the blasts by means of which the original rock ledge is broken into
fragments.
a. Primary blasting c. Mud-capping
b. Black-holding d. Plaster shooting
22. A square set whose members are not framed at their intersections and the timbers used are smaller than
those of the square set.
a. Spilling c. Top lagging
b. Bastard set d. bearing set
23. A fuse composed of an explosive core within a textile or plastic covering. It detonates every
explosive
that in direct contact with it.
c.
a. Cordtex Ignitacord
b. Primacord d. none of the above
24. The angle, measured in degrees of deviation from the horizontal at which the earthy or rack material will
stand in an excavated terrace-like out in an open pit mine or quarry.
a. Angle of draw c. Angle of repose
b. Pit
Slope d. Bench slope
25. The explosive cartridge into which the detonator has been inserted.
a. ANFO c. Gela tin dynamite
b. Permissible
Explosive d. Primer Cartridge
26. Type of cut in underground blasting in which the cut holes are drilled parallel to each other and straight
into the face; one or more holes are being left unloaded for the others to break to.
a. Under c. Burn
cut cut
B. Fan cut d. V – cut
27. The operation of drilling and blasting a detached boulder or masses of rock, the purpose of which is to
reduce the mass to sizes suitable for handling.
a. Mud-capping c. Master shooting
b. Block holing d. Bootleg
28. A baked mixtures of soda and lime, used in the container or regeneration of self-contained mine
rescue
or oxygen breathing apparatus to absorb the exhaled CO2.
a. Air ox c. Card oxide
b. Car ox d. Clorox
29. Mine opening over haulage level through which ore from the slope above is drawn to the waiting trucks
as planning is moved.
a. Ramp c. Chinaman’s chute
b. Ore
pass d. Drift
30. A hollow cylinder attached to a specially designed it and which is used to contain and preserve a
continuous section, or core of the rocks penetrated in drilling.
a. Core barrel c. Core lifter
b. Core-it-lap d. none of the above
31. Explosive decomposition that moves through the reactants at a speed greater than the speed of sound
in the reactants to produce shock waves and significant over pressure regardless of confinement.
a. Detonation c. electric blasting cap
b. Delay d. Deflagration

Mining Engineering I
MINERAL EXPLORATION

1. One of these minerals is exhibiting a combination of pink, violet, and black outcrop.
a. Zinc c. Manganese
b. Lead d. Cobalt
2. Which of the following mineral is exhibiting a characteristic of either green or greenish outcrop?
a. Silver c. Uranium
b. Nickel d. All of the above
3. A mineral that has either blue or green outcrop, and exist as carbonates, silicates, sulphates, oxides
and
in native form is
a, Iron sulphides c. Nickel
b. Copper d. Mercury
4. What particular mineral that exhibits a color anomaly of yellow, brown, or red at the outcrop of ore body?
a. Arsenic c. Manganese
b. Iron Sulphides d. Antimony
5. A mining technique that uses either air and water as flushing medium and both cuttings of ore can be
recovered, very useful in reserve calculation of soft formations:
a. percussion
drilling c. reserved circulation
d. diamond
b. auger drilling drilling
6. What is the particular phase in regional mineral prospecting and exploration wherein detailed surface
appraisal is being done on the target area?
a. Phase 1 c. Phase 2
c. Phase 3 d. Phase 4
7. Diamond drilling is considered
a. rotary-rolling c. rotary-drag bit drilling
c. rotary
percussion d. percussion drilling
8. This material is used as both lubricant and flushing medium:
a.
mud c. soapstone
b. clays d. bentonite
9. A standard practice in diamond drilling wherein the core is recovered by pulling the barrel to the surface
inside the connecting drill rods using a thin steel cable, thus eliminating the need to pull the entire length
of the drill rod to the surface.
a. core drilling c. wire-line drilling (Q series)
b. wire-line drilling (ST series) d. conventional drilling

Mining Engineering I
MINE PLANNING DESIGN, SYSTEM AND ANALYSIS

1. What type opening is most suitable considering the following conditions: a deposit outcrops in an area
of high relief and shallow cover; it dips steeply and can be intersected at relatively shallow depth.
 a. decline c. vertical shaft
b. slope d. adit
2. A new method of hoisting that is design for every deep shaft extending more than 6,000 ft. in depth.
a. drum c. koepe
b. friction-sheave d. multi-drum
3. ________ in the direction of the mine entrance.
a. entry c. in by
b. portal d. out by
4. It is any division or branch of the ventilation circuit:
a. air split c. airway
b. split d. air course
5. The total area around an airway is called
a.
regulator c. rubbing surface
b. surface area d. resistance surface
6. In coal mining, this is the creation of a strong, inflexible beam by bolting or otherwise fastening
together
several weaker layers:
a. beam building c. bolting
d.
b. barrier pillars grouting
7. Solids blocks of coal or rock left between two miners or sections of a mine to prevent accidents due to
inrushes of water or gas, or to protect pillars in headings against crushing:
a. beam buildings c. gob
b. barrier pillars d. fillings
8. These are special air courses developed and maintained as part of the mine ventilation system that are
design to continuously move air-methane mixtures emitted by the gob away from active workings and into
mine-return-air
courses:
a. airways c. bleeder entries
d.
b. air courses overcasts
9. Fuels and oxidizers are the principal reacting ingredients in explosives. Which do you think is not a fuel?
a. TNT c. carbon
b.
aluminum d. NaNO3
10. These are specially formulated mixtures that are safe to use in flammable atmospheres in
underground
coal
mines:
a. ANFO c. permissible
b. NG explosives d. black powder
11. Rope fleet angle is the angle subtended by the hoist rope and the centerline from the drum to reduce
abrasion in the sheave groove, the fleet angle should be restricted to:
a. 2-5/20 c. 1-20
b. 30 d. 1-3/20
12. A wire rope that is suitable for any system (drum hoist or friction-sheave) at depths of over 3,200 ft is
a. flattened strand c. locked-coil
b. round strand d. all of the above
13. If you are a draw control engineer in a block caving operation and you are required to have at least a
subsidence of 1 meter of the caved ore from each draw raise, compute for the amount of draw you should
get from each finger raise (each with a diameter of 3 meters) considering that the insitu density of the
ore
is 2 MT/cu. M. with a swell factor of 17 % upon caving.
a. 14.10MT/m c. 12.10MT/m
b. 19.47MT/m d. 15.22MT/m.
14. What type of access will you choose for deep horizontal (< 300), vertical, steeply inclined (< 700) deposit?
a. slope with haulage c. vertical shaft with hoisting
b. decline tunnel with conveyor d. inclined shaft with hoisting
15. An effective way to operate a mine with conventional haulage methods in an inclined seam or bed is to
drive all openings cross-pitch, that
is:
 a. at an angle to the dip of the deposit c. at an angle half the dip of the deposit
b. at an angle to the strike of the deposit d. at an angle 450 to the dip of the deposit
16. Multiple openings are necessary in coal mines because they provide
a. good access to the
coal c. good recovery of the coal
b. adequate ventilation d. minimal distances
17. Excessive spacing or deficient spacing of draw points causes weight problems on:
a.
undercuts c. crown pillars
b. sill
pillars d. barrier pillars
18. In actual caving, it is this action which dilutes the ore with waste during drawing:
c.
a. draw control funneling
b. ellipsoid of motion d. gravity flowing
19. In a typical mining bench operation, 1 ft of ore face must be exposed for each 4 to 5 tons of required
daily production. Supposing the required daily production is 20, 000 tons, the advance stripping of the
bench face must continue until:
a. 4, 000 – 5, 000 ft. c. 2, 000 – 3, 000 ft.
b. 10, 000 – 12, 000 ft. d. 6, 000 – 7, 000 ft.
20. Supplements the pit design and reserve estimation work that is usually done for feasibility and
budget
studies and is an important element of the decision making process:
a. long range mine planning c. long range production planning
b. short range mine planning d. short range production planning
21. For paper cycle balance in hauling, the cycle time for trucks must be:
a. half the time required to spot and loads the entire truck fleet.
b. Equal to the time required to spot and load the entire truck fleet.
c. Greater than the times required to spot and load the entire truck fleet.
d. Less than the time required to spot and load the entire truck fleet.
22. In an open pit mine design, these are located on each section so the ore grade line supports a
stripping
ratio of corresponding to the break-even stripping ratio or allowable stripping ratio:
c. pit
a. cut- off grades limits
b. pit slope angle d. bank slopes
23. Road-grades are based on the following
criterion;
a. from trucks performance charts on breaking and speeding
b. soil cohesion
c. pit stability
d. all of the above
24. The best road gradient is between the ranges of:
a. 7-12% c. 8-12%
b. 8-15 % d. 7-15%
25. A failure that occurs below the toe of the bank:
a. base failure c. slope failure
d.
b. slip circle failure toppling
26. A failure that occurs intermediate between the crest and the toe:
a. base failure c. slope failure
d.
b. slip circle failure toppling
27. The recommended pit slope for the solid country rock is:
a. 60-800 c. 450
b. 63-720 d. 500
28. The recommended pit slope for gravel is:
a. 220 c. 160
b. 350 d. 370
29. Hole patterns used only in soft to moderately hard rock (coal, potash, salt, etc.) to provide an additional
free face for blasting. They lower the risk of explosion in a flammable atmosphere, such as in coal
mines:
 a. pyramid cut c. kerfs
b. burn
cut d. V-cut
30. What is the most important factor in designing blasting grounds?
a. property of rock c. hole pattern
b. drill hole diameter d. type of explosive
31. In underground mines, which of the following is classified as continuous mining?
A. shaft mocker c. slushier
b. loader d. boring machine
32. Which of the following is classified as continuous mining?
a. shovel c. scraper
d.
b. dredging dragline
33. Which of the following is classified as both excavating and rock fragmentation
method?
a. ripping c. blasting
B. hydraulic king d. both b and c
34. Diameter holes in underground mines are generally:
a. 10-20 c.12-24
in. in.
b. 1-4 in. d. 5-10 in.
35. Diameter holes in surface mines are generally:
a. 10-20 c. 12-24
in. in.
b. 6-18 in. d. 5-10 in.
36. It is considered the most important explosive parameter in breaking and displacing rock in blasting,
or otherwise known as explosion pressure:
a. borehole pressure c. detonating pressure
d. high velocity
b. high explosive pressure pressure
37. An explosive produces toxic fumes when:
a. excess fuel c. fuel shortage
b. excess oxygen d. balanced-oxygen content
38. One of these is classified as both rock fragmentation and rock penetration.
a. ripping c. impact
b. drilling d. jet
39. In general, with the off-the-shelf technology, the lowest cost of penetration in soft rock is obtained using:
c. rotary-roller bit
a. percussion drilling drilling
b. rotary-drag bit
drilling d. rotary-percussion drilling
40. Which do you think is a fuel?
a. CaCO3 c. TNT
b. AN d. NG

Mining Engineering I
MINING METHODS

1. Sublevel block caving is a hybrid between sublevel caving and block caving introduced to counter
a. Drilling and lasting problems in sublevel
caving.
b. Draw control problems in block caving.
c. Problems in sublevel caving due to dilution and mining at
depth
d. Problems in block caving regarding stability, reinforcement and secondary blasting problems.
2. The sublevel shrinkage method is a variant of sublevel caving and shrinkage stooping to developed to
reduce
a. drawbacks due to mechanization of operation
b. drawbacks due to mining at depth
c. drawbacks in sublevel caving such as stability problem as mining goes deeper and minimizing dilution
d. drawbacks in shrinkage stooping such as
dilution
 3. Sublevel caving layout depends primarily on the size and shape of the ore body, for steeply dipping and
narrow ore bodies, the appropriate layout is:
a. longitudinal layout c. cross-section layout
b. perpendicular layout d. traverse layout
4. Sublevel caving method is applicable to:
a. competent ore body characteristics enclosed by strong wall rocks
b. weak ore body and wall rock characteristics
c. reasonably competent ore body characteristics enclosed by incompetent wall rocks
d. strong ore body and wall rock characteristics
5. The optimum yield from the ore body in sublevel caving depends on:
a. the drilling and blasting technique
b. attitude of the ore body
c. the country rock overlying the ore body
d. the gravitational flow of the granular material produced by blasting and the caving waste rock
6. Sublevel caving is a method that:
a. is applicable to a tabular ore body with 3 meters height
b. involves the formation of the in-situ ore into a mechanically mobile state by drilling and
blasting, and subsequently recovered.
c. is applicable to low plunging vein type deposit
d. rely on the caving of the ore
7. Sublevel caving method remains to be called so due to the fact that:
a. the characteristic of the ore and country rocks have high capability index
b. the ore and country rock caves
c. the ore caves
d. the country rock (hanging wall and foot wall) caves.
8. Front caving method is a special version of sublevel caving introduced by Jane lid (1975) that was
based on:
a. tests that good control of the gravity flow can be achieved when production drifts are wide and low
b.
Stability
c. the size or area of contact surface between blasted ore and caving waste
rock
d. recovery and waste rock dilution
9. Sublevel caving and block caving are methods that are:
a. Naturally supported c. artificially supported
b. Unsupported d. None of the above
10. Cut and fill stooping, shrinkage stooping, VCR stooping and long-wall mining are methods that are:
a. Naturally supported c. artificially supported
b. Unsupported d. None of the above
11. Room and pillar mining, sublevel stooping and long-hole open stooping methods are mining methods that are:
a. Naturally supported c. artificially supported
b. Unsupported d. None of the above
12. A system of transporting ore consisting essentially of head frame, head sheaves, winding machine and winding ropes:
a. Conveyor transport c. rail transport
d.
b. trackless transport hoisting
13. A mechanized cut and fills stooping
a. Cut-and-fill stopping with LHD c. rill stopping
b. Horizontal cut-and-fill stopping d. resuing
14. Field of study concerned with checking the properties and behavior of rocks when subjected to force field:
a. slope stability c. ground control
b. rock mechanics d. soil mechanics
15. Mineral commonly whose international price level is heavily influenced by the strength of the U.S. dollar and level
interest rates:
a. Gold c. Nickel
c.
Chromite d. Copper
16. Positive ore reserve is synonymous to:
a. measured ore c. possible ore
b. probable ore d. inferred ore
17. A technique of measuring expected profitability through the basic concepts cash flow and time value of money
 a. Hoskold formula c. accounting rate of return
b. pay back period d. discounted cash flow rate of return
18. It is a time-based cost being incurred continuously regardless of mining activity and being extinguished only by
complete capital repayment:
a. c.
royalties depletion
b. depreciation d. interest
19. A profitability index used by project evaluators to ascertain the selling price and sales volume of the mineral
to which no profit or loss will be incurred by the proponent company
a. Net present value analysis c. sensitivity analysis
b. Regression analysis d. Break-even analysis
20. Underground mining method frequently used by small-scale gold miners:
a. sublevel caving c. cut-and-fill
d.
b. top splicing gophering
21. Mining method used for wide veins or masses with weak ore which will stand unsupported only over small openings:
c. square
a. Shrinkage stopping set
b. top splicing d. sublevel stopping
22. Under the present set of mining laws, rules and regulations, tax exemption applications of mining companies are
handled
by:
a. Board of investments c. Ministry of Finance
b. Bureau of Mines and Geosciences d. Bureau of Customs
23. Produced by fires, explosion of gas or dust where CO2 is an important constituent:
a. White damp c. After damp
b. Black damp d. Fire damp
24. In stull stopping, the maximum deposit dip should range from:
a. 00 to
100 c. 500 to 600
b. 600 to 800 d. 450 to 500
25. Shrinkage stopping requires that the ore should be strong and the wall rock should be:
a. Strong c. moderately weak
b. very weak d. weak
26. Room and pillar method is used predominantly in:
a. Quarrying dimension stones c. coal mining
b. deep-level gold
mining d. metal mining
27. An overhand method in which the ore is mined in horizontal slices and remains in the slope as a temporary support
for the walls and to provide a working platform.
a. overhand cut and fill stopping c. block caving
b. shrinkage stopping d. top slicing
28. Mining method that is exclusively by retreating method with the cut-off grade serving only to define the fingers
of major ore zones.
a. solution mining c. block caving
d. open
b. cut and fill pit
29. The best grade prediction technique that allows the lowest margin of error of
estimation:
a. Geo-statistical
method c. distance weighing method
d. Conventional or Geometric
b. Classical statistical method methods
30. This is a type of placer mining:
a. Hydraulicking c. Quarrying
b. Open
cut d. Strip mining
31. The unsupported underground mining methods can be used in any type except in:
a. hydrothermal
deposits c. placer deposits
b. vein type deposits d. bedded deposits
32. In borehole extraction (aqueous extraction), the rock should be:
a. permeable c. consolidated
 b. competent and impervious d. unconsolidated
33. A horizontal exploitation opening, driven to connect levels, and used or haulage:
a. cross-
cut c. room
d.
b. counter drive longwall
34. A post (timber) used to support loose rocks, slabs in the roof in coal mining.
a. Muck c. Pillar
b. Prop d. Pack
35. A system of coal mining using continuous miners and hydraulic roof support.
a. strip mining c. short-wall
d. long-
b. Room and pillar wall
36. An exploration method applicable to finding and following short, narrow and irregular veins.
a. c.
Trenching Auditing
b. Diamond drilling d. Test pitting
37. Dilution is kept to the minimum in reusing mining due to:
a. Systematic backfilling technique
b. Care fill drilling lasting procedure
c. The use of normal size mechanized equipment
d. Separate double blasting or selective operation, blasting the ore before blasting the wall to serve as
fill
material
38. The analysis of the method in wide veins suggests that it is the safest method of mining today:
a. Shrinkage stopping c. cut-and-fill mining
b. Vertical Crater Retreat (VCR) method d. Sublevel stopping
39. The Vertical Crater Retreat (VCR) method involves the procedure as:
a. Fan holes are drilled from a drift towards the direction of the undercut
b. Fan holes are drilled at the undercut level
c. Vertical holes are drilled on a designed pattern from the undercut level to the back of the sublevel
d. Vertical holes are drilled on a designed pattern from a cut over stope or pillar to the bottom in the
of the undercut
40. A mining method that reminds of a sublevel stopping and is based on the principle of spherical charge and catering
concepts:
a. Vertical Crater
Retreat c. Resuing Mining
b. Rill Mining d. Sublevel Retreat with backfill
41. Sublevel retreat with backfill is found in literature as:
a. Sublevel stopping c. Rill mining
b. Avoca Mining d. Cut-and-fill in slices

Mining Engineering I
MINE VENTILATION AND SAFETY

1. How many times of power required in order developing twice the volume?
a. 7 times the power c. 5 times the power
b. 6 times the power d. 8 times the power
2. The fan law states that in order to develop twice the volume, how many times the speed is required?
a. 2 times the velocity c. 4 times the velocity
b. 3 times the velocity d. 5 times the velocity
3. According to the fan laws, twice the volume develops how many times the pressure?
a. 7 times the pressure c. 5 times the pressure
b. 6 times the pressure d. 4 times the pressure
4. It is a type of ventilation which is efficient and generally dependable.
a. Naturel ventilation c. Natural draft
d. Mechanical
b. Lime dusting ventilation
5. The type of ventilation that utilizes the application of fans, vents, tubing’s and baggings.
a. Natural ventilation c. Natural draft
d. Mechanical
b. Lime Dusting Ventilation
6. The type of ventilation in which density change in air columns causes alteration in natural draft pressure resulting to
unpredictable air volume flow.
a. Natural ventilation c. Natural draft
d. Mechanical
b. Lime Dusting Ventilation
7. It results from pressure differential due to unequal densities of two air columns.
a. Natural Ventilation c. Relative density
d. Mechanical
b. Static Pressure Ventilation
8. It is otherwise called as “natural draft”
a. Natural Ventilation c. Ventilation
d.
b. Wind Pressure
9. It is the underground mine gas otherwise called as “laughing gas”.
c.
a. Nitrogen Dioxide Methane
b. Hydrogen Sulfide d. Carbon Monoxide
10. It is the underground mine gas otherwise called as “stink damp”.
c.
a. Sulfur dioxide Methane
b. Hydrogen Sulfide d. Carbon Monoxide
11. It is the underground mine gas otherwise called as “sweet damp”.
c.
a. Nitrogen Dioxide Methane
b. Hydrogen Sulfide d. Carbon monoxide
12. It is the underground mine gas otherwise called as “white damp”.
c.
a. Nitrogen dioxide Methane
b. Hydrogen Sulfide d. Carbon monoxide
13. It is the underground mine gas otherwise called as “marsh gas”.
c.
a. Nitrogen dioxide Methane
b. Hydrogen sulfide d. Carbon Monoxide
14. It is the underground mine gas otherwise called as “choke or black damp”.
c.
a. carbon dioxide Méthane
b. Hydrogen Sulfide d. Carbon Monoxide
15. The amount of oxygen in underground mines required under the “Revised Mines Safety Rules and Regulations” is:
a. 18% by volume c. 20% by volume
b. 19% by volume d. 21% by volume
16. It is the “Revised Mines Safety Rules and Regulations” issued by the Department of Environment and Natural

Resources.
a. DENR Administrative Order No. 82, Series of 1990
b. DENR Administrative Order No. 57, Series of 1990
c. Mines Administrative Order No. MRD – 21
d. Mines Administrative Order No. MRD – 21
17. The maximum allowed of concentration allowed for hydrogen in underground mines as per “Revised Mines Safety
Rules and Regulations”.
a. <6.0% by volume c. <7.0% by volume
b. <5.0% by volume d. <4.0% by volume
18. The threshold limits value of sulfur dioxide as per “Revised Mines Safety Rules and Regulations”.
a. 0.0030% by volume c. 0.0010% by volume
b. 0.0005% by volume d. 0.001% by volume
19. The threshold limits value of oxides of nitrogen as per “Revised Mines Safety Rules and Regulations”.
a. 0.0005% by volume c. 0.0001% by volume
b. 0.0030% by volume d. 0.0010% by volume
20. The threshold limits value of hydrogen sulfide as per “Revised Mines Safety Rules and Regulations”.
a. 0.01% by volume c. 0.10% by volume
b. 0.20% by volume d. 0.30% by volume
21. The threshold limits value of carbon monoxide as per “Revised Mines Safety Rules and
Regulations”.
a. 0.01% by volume c. 0.03% by volume
 b. 0.02% by volume d. 0.04% by volume
22. The threshold limits value of carbon dioxide as per “Revised Mines Safety Rules and Regulations”.
a. 1.00% by volume c. 0.50% by volume
b. 0.75% by volume d. 0.25% by volume
23. Hydrogen gas is explosive with this range of concentration.
a. 1%-71% by volume c. 10%-80% by volume
b. 7%-77% by volume d. 4%-74% by volume
24. Methane is explosive with this range of concentration:
a. 1%-10% by volume c. 10%-20% by volume
b. 15%-25% by volume d. 5%-15% by volume
Mining Engineering I
MINE SAFETY RULES AND REGULATIONS

1. The total fatal and non-fatal lost time accidents per million man-hours
work.
a. Accident severity
rate c. Total accident rate
b. Accident frequency rate d. Total last time accident
2. The days lost per million man-hours worked.
a. Accident severity
rate c. Total accident rate
b. Accident frequency rate d. Total lost time accident
3. ____________shall mean those that will prevent the injured from reporting to work on the working day following
the day of injury and thereafter.
a. Accident severity
rate c. Total accident rate
b. Accident frequency rate d. Lost time accident
4. An underground and surface mine which employs a total of not less than 150 and 250 employees respectively is
classified as:
a. Class A c. Class C
b. Small Scale d. Large Scale
5. An underground and surface mine which employs a total of not more than 50 and 75 employees respectively is
classified as an:
a. Class A c. Class C
b. Small Scale d. Large Scale
6. A Class “A” mine shall have at least:
a. 1 part-time Safety Inspector and Deputy Inspector
b. 1 part-time Safety Engineer and 1 full-time Safety Inspector
c. 1 full-time Safety Engineer and Safety Inspector
d. 1 full-time Safety Engineer
7. A Class “B” mine shall have at least:
a. 1 part-time Safety Inspector and Deputy Engineer
b. 1 part-time Safety Engineer and 1 full-time Safety Inspector
c. 1 full-time Safety Engineer and Safety Inspector
d. 1 full-time Safety Engineer
8. A Class “C” mine shall have at least:
a. 1 part-time Safety Inspector and Deputy Inspector
b. 1 part-time Safety Engineer and 1 full-time Safety Inspector
c. 1 full-time safety Engineer and Safety Inspector
d. 1 full-time Safety Engineer
9. An employee may be designated as and Deputy Safety Inspector by his employer if the employee has an experience
in safety work or mining operations for at least:
b. 15 c. 10
a.5 - 10 years years years d. 10 – 15 years
10. Any mine working that will be driven under rivers, seas, or any accumulation of standing or running water on
massive, unbroken or un-fractured igneous rock shall have a thickness of _______from the true river bed to the roof
of mine working.
a. 25
meters b. 25-30 meters c. 50 meters d. 30-50 meters
11. Any mine working that will be driven under rivers, seas, or any accumulation of standing or running water on
broken, or fractured igneous rock shall have a thickness of _______from the true river bed to the roof of mine working.
 a. 25 c. 50
meters b. 25-30 meters meters d. 30-50 meters
12. According to the “green book” no stoping shall be undertaken within _______meter radius from the main shaft.
a. 25 b. 18 c. 16 d. 50
meters meters meters meters
13. In a subsidence zone of a block caving operation, regular backfilling of the area shall be undertaken to maintain a
minimum of ______% gradient over the subsidence area to drain off rain
water.
a. 6% b. 3% c. 2% d. 7%
14. Tailings and slurries may be used as backfill in a subsidence area.
a. True b. false c. Permissible d. depending on the specific gravity
15. The vertical height of working benches shall be kept at a maximum of______ meters above the maximum reach of
the shovel/loader being used.
a. 2 d. 5
meters b. 1.5 meters c. 3.5 meters meters
Mining Engineering I
ROCK MECHANICS
1. It is the theoretical and applied science of the mechanical behavior of rock masses.
a. Rock mechanics c. Soil mechanics
b. Geo-mechanics d. Structural geology
2. It is concerned with the mechanical responses of all geological materials including soil.
a. Mineral mechanics c. Geo-mechanics
b. Rock mechanics d. Soil mechanics
3. The concept that used to describe the intensity of internal forces set up in a body under the influence of a set of
applied surface force.
a. Force c. Stress
b. Strain d. Movement
4. It defines the shear stress components vanish, that is possible to select a particular orientation for a plain such that
it is subject to normal stress.
a. Stress
Transformation c. Principal Stress
b. Stress Invariance d. Principal Plane
5. The way to describe qualitatively in which stress and strain are related in a material under load.
a. Constitutive
Behavior c. Poisson’s ratio
b.
Elasticity d. stress
6. It ranks second to isotropic elasticity in the degree of expression of elastic symmetry in the material behavior.
a. Transverse isotropic elasticity c. Modulus of Rigidity
b. Modulus of elasticity d. Poisson’s ratio
7. The term used to describe the intact rock between discontinuities.
a. Rock Mass c. rock material
b.
Aperture d. filling material
8. It is the total in situ medium containing bedding planes, faults, joints and other structural feature.
c. rock
a. Rock material mass
b. d.
Lithology structure
9. It is the nature and distribution of structural features within the rock mass.
a. Stress c. rock material
b. Geologic features d. Rock structure
10. The fractures on which identifiable shear displacement has taken place.
a. Spacing c. Persistence
b. Faults d. discontinuity
11. The perpendicular distance between adjacent discontinuities.
a. Dip c. Strike
b. Dip d.
angle Spacing
12. Term used to describe the aerial or size of a discontinuity with a plane.
a.
Aperture c. Persistence
b. Aerial photo d. Stereo net
13. The distance range of discontinuity spacing which is considered as extremely close spacing.
a. 20 -60 mm. c. 50 -200 mm.
b 60-200 mm. d. 60-200 mm.
14. The distance range of discontinuity spacing which is considered as very wide spacing.
c. <20
a. 10 -25 mm. cm.
d. <20
b. 10 -20 mm. mm.
15. The distance range used of discontinuity spacing which is considered as extremely close spacing.
a. 200-6000 mm. c. 2500-3000 mm.
b. 200-600 mm. d. >6000
16. It pertains to the surface unevenness and waiveness of the discontinuity relative to its mean plane.
a. Contour Line c. Persistence
b. Roughness d. Texture
17. The distance separating the adjacent rock walls of an open discontinuity in which the intervening space is filled
with air or water.
c.
a. Filling Aperture
d.
b. Dip Spacing
18. The term used to describe material separating the adjacent rock walls of discontinuities.
c.
a. Filling Intrusion
b. Vein d. Contact rocks
19. It is the formation of planes of separation in the rock
material. 0 .
a. Bedding plane c. fracture
b. Filling d. Rock mass
20. When the rock reach its maximum stress, usually averaged over a plane, the rock can sustain under a given set of
conditions
c.
a. Yield effective
b.
Strength d. Stress
21. It is the basic technique used in mapping surface of underground exposures.
a. Structural mapping c. Scan-line survey
b. Scan-line mapping d. Stereo netting
22. Set of line on the surface of the rock mass, and the survey consists of recording data for all discontinuities that
intersect the scan line along its
length.
a. Scan-
line c. RMR data
b. Structural data d. MRMR data
23. A most reliable way of exploring the interior of a rock mass prior to mining.
a. Geochemistry c. Core drilling
b. Geo-statistics d. Geophysics
24. The intersection of the plane and surface of the plane
a. Semi-circle c. node
b. Great circle d. pole
25. A line perpendicular to the plane and passing through center of the sphere at two diametrically opposite points is
called ________ of the plane.
a. Poles c. nodes
b. Projection d. zenith
26. It is the process by which sudden loss of strength occurs across a plane following little or no permanent deformation.
a. Ductile c. Deformation
d.
b. Brittle fracture Failures
27. When rock can sustain further permanent deformation without losing load carrying capacity, this rock is experiencing
a. Effective stress c. failure
b.
Strength d. ductile deformation
28. It is the stress, which governs the gross mechanical response of a porous material.
a. Effective stress c. Effective strain
 d.
b. Pore pressure porosity