303150 (v.2) WASM Rock Breakage 332

Area:

WASM Mining Engineering Teaching Area

Credits:

25.0

Contact Hours:

4.0

** 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

Syllabus:

Explosive and non-explosive breakage of rock. Topics include - physics of breakage, mechanical rock breakage, and explosive rock breakage. Fragmentation and breakage theories. Drilling, drilling techniques for exploration and sampling, drilling techniques for blasting. Explosive breakage, encompassing the properties and selection of commercial explosives, primer and booster, explosives charging techniques, initiation and delay systems, explosive energy, blasting accessories and their applications. Rock mass characterisation for blasting. Basic blast design principles and practices including - metalliferous bench blasting, open pit blasting, shaft sinking, and underground blasting. Special blasting techniques including presplitting, smooth wall blasting, trenching, cast blasting, and paddock blasting. Blast fragmentation and analysis and the mine-to-mill concept.

** 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
2007	Kalgoorlie Campus	Semester 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