11715 (v.3) WASM Mineral Processing 601

Area:

WASM Minerals Engineering and Extractive Metallurgy Teaching Area

Credits:

12.5

Contact Hours:

16.0

** 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:

4 x 4 Hours Weekly

Syllabus:

Introduction to the processing stages that follow the discovery and mining of mineral deposits. Focus on the various unit operations in the treatment of a mined ore body from run-of-mine ore through to a marketable mineral product. This mineral product may be processed further through hydrometallurgical - solutions, or pyrometallurgical - heat, processes to a metal product or utilised metal form. This unit is designed for non-science and engineering graduates who work in and with mining companies.

** 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:

030300 Process and Resources Engineering (Narrow Grouping)

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
2007	Bentley Campus	Study Period 2	Y
2007	Bentley Campus	Trimester 1	Y
2007	Bentley Campus	Trimester 2	Y
2007	Kalgoorlie Campus	Semester 2	Y
2007	Kalgoorlie Campus	Study Period 3	Y
2007	Kalgoorlie Campus	Trimester 2	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