12579 (v.2) WASM Underground Mining 532

Area:

WASM Mining Engineering Teaching Area

Credits:

25.0

Contact Hours:

5.0

** 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 4 Hours Weekly

Tutorial:

1 x 1 Hours Weekly

Anti Requisite(s):

303156 (v.1) WASM Underground Mining 332

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 and services. Coal mining, room and pillar, longwall, shortwall, methane drainage, subsidence and 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 and block caving. Groundwater control, backfill and dilution. Field trips.

** 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:

030303 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

Availability

Year	Location	Period	Internal	Partially Online Internal	Area External	Central External	Fully Online
2006	Kalgoorlie Campus	Semester 2	Y		Y

Area External	refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.
Central External	refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area
Partially Online Internal	refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External
Fully Online	refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External