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


Area: WASM Mining Engineering Teaching Area
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 50.0
 
** 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. **
 
Lecture: 1 x 50 Hours Once-only
 
Syllabus: 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.
 
** 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. **
 
Field of Education: 30303 Mining Engineering
Funding Cluster: 08 - Engineering, Science, Surveying
SOLT (Online) Definitions*: Informational
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type: Grade/Mark

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