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12579 (v.2) WASM Underground Mining 532


Area: WASM Mining Engineering Teaching Area
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 5.0
 
** 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
Tutorial: 1 x 1 Hours Weekly
Anti Requisite(s): 303156 (v.1) WASM Underground Mining 332
 
Syllabus: 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.
 
** 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: 30303 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
2005 Kalgoorlie Campus Semester 2 Y   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

 
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