Introduction

Welcome to Cookie Mining!

In this activity, you will be mining for a very important and delicious natural resource – chocolate chips! 

While chocolate chips aren’t actually formed underground, we will use them to represent another important resource mined in North Dakota – ligniteBrownish-black coal in which the alteration of vegetal material has proceeded further than in peat but not so far as... Read More coala dark brown to black combustible rock of organic origin formed over millions of years by the partial decomposition of... Read More. Before we dig in, let’s learn a bit more about lignite coal mining, starting with some terms to know.