305572 (v.1) WASM Underground Mining 202

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Area:	WASM Mining Engineering Teaching Area
Contact Hours:	5.0
Credits:	25.0
Lecture:	1 x 4 Hours Weekly
Tutorial:	1 x 1 Hours Weekly
Safety and productivity accounting. Access, layout and design. Unit operations and mine services. Coal mining - methods, methane drainage, subsidence, percentage extraction. Mining methods - cut and fill, shrinkage, longhole stoping, vertical crater retreat, sub level caving, block caving, hard rock narrow width tabular mining methods. Ground water control, backfill and dilution. Field trips.