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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.


Availability

YearLocationPeriodInternalArea ExternalCentral External
2004Kalgoorlie CampusSemester 2 Y 

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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