Online Courses Handbook 2003

305572 (v.1) WASM Underground Mining 202

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
Prerequisite(s):	303138 (v.1) WASM Mining and Metallurgy 131 or any previous version
Safety and productivity accounting. Access, layout and design. Unit operations and mine services. Coal mining - methods, methane drainage, subsidence, percentage extraction. Mining methods - cut and fill, shrinkage, longhole stoping, vertical crater retreat, sub level caving, block caving, hard rock narrow width tabular mining methods. Ground water control, backfill and dilution. Field trips.