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307318 (v.1) WASM Open Pit Mine Planning and Design 601



 

Area:

WASM Mining Engineering Teaching Area

Contact Hours:

50.0

Credits:

25.0

Lecture:

1 x 50 Hours Once-only
Introduction to strategic open pit planning and design concepts. Optimisation in open pit design. 3D ultimate pit limit algorithms and their applications. Computer aided haul road generation and dump design, heuristic long and short term scheduling techniques, mathematical optimisation for sequencing and scheduling. Equipment selection. Drill-blast-shovel-truck production systems. Equipment monitoring and grade control strategies. Future concepts in open pit mining. Design procedures are illustrated using various computer programs. Scientific and engineering approach to mine design. Input data for initial mine design. Design process in open pit mining, cut-off grade analysis, bench slope, haul road and pushback design. Drilling and blasting design. Applications of CAD systems in mine design. Emphasis is on design principles and discussion of case studies to illustrate applications of the principles. Selected case studies will be presented.


Availability

YearLocationPeriodInternalArea ExternalCentral External
2004Kalgoorlie CampusSemester 2Y  
2004Kalgoorlie CampusWinter PeriodY  

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External
refers to external course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area

 
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