Area: |
WASM Mining Engineering Teaching Area |
Credits: |
25.0 |
Contact Hours: |
5.0 |
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** 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. ** |
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Lecture: |
1 x 4 Hours Weekly |
Tutorial: |
1 x 1 Hours Weekly |
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Syllabus: |
Drilling and fragmentation as part of the mine to mill system. Exploration and production drilling, optimisation of drilling performance. Explosive - safety and regulations, types, properties and mining applications. Surface and underground blasting, optimising patterns, explosives and initiation systems in relation to the rock mass environment and production requirements. Blast vibrations, damage and fragmentation. Mechanical fragmentation of material - drag bits as in continuous miners, road headers and longwall drum shearers - indentors as in tunnel boring machines and raise borers. |
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** 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. ** |
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Field of Education: |
30303 Mining Engineering |
HECS Band (if applicable): |
2 |
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Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information: |
Informational |
Result Type: |
Grade/Mark |
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Availability |
Year |
Location |
Period |
Internal |
Area External |
Central External |
2004 |
Kalgoorlie Campus |
Semester 1 |
Y |
Y |
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2004 |
Kalgoorlie Campus |
Semester 2 |
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Y |
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Area External |
refers to external course/units run by the School or Department, offered online or through Web CT, or offered by research. |
Central External | refers to external course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area |
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