Online Courses Handbook 2003

12579 (v.2) WASM Underground Mining 532

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
Anti Requisite(s):	303156 (v.1) WASM Underground Mining 332
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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