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12579 (v.2) WASM Underground Mining 532
Area: |
WASM Mining Engineering Teaching Area |
Credits: |
25.0 |
Contact Hours: |
5.0 |
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| ** The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline. ** |
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Lecture: |
1 x 4 Hours Weekly |
Tutorial: |
1 x 1 Hours Weekly |
Anti Requisite(s): |
303156 (v.1) WASM Underground Mining 332
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Syllabus: |
Safety, production, profit and productivity accounting, mining as a system of unit operations. Access to underground through shafts and declines, layout and design. Unit operations of drill and blast, mechanical excavation, removal of broken rock, rock support and reinforcement, services. Coal mining, room and pillar, longwall, shortwall, methane drainage, subsidence, percentage extraction. Hard rock narrow width tabular mining methods. Other mining methods, room and pillar, cut and fill, shrinkage, longhole stoping, vertical crater retreat, sub level caving, block caving. Ground water control, backfill, dilution. Field trips. |
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| ** To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement. ** |
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Field of Education: |
30303 Mining Engineering |
HECS Band (if applicable): |
2 |
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Extent to which this unit or thesis
utilises online information: |
Informational |
Result Type: |
Grade/Mark |
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Availability |
| Year |
Location |
Period |
Internal |
Area External |
Central External |
| 2004 |
Kalgoorlie Campus |
Semester 2 |
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Y |
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Area
External |
refers to external course/units run by the School or Department, offered online or through Web CT, or offered by research. |
Central
External | refers to external course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area |
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