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 305715 (v.1) WASM Surface Mining Methods 331
 
	| Area: | WASM Mining Engineering Teaching Area |  
	| Credits: | 12.5 |  
	| Contact Hours: | 3.0 |  |  |  
	| ** 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 3 Hours Weekly |  |  |  
	| Syllabus: | An introduction to surface mining methods. Open pit mining - mine development data, pit layouts, mine operations, productivity and cost factors, haul road design and construction, grade control and stockpiles, monitoring and control of operations, heap leaching. Strip mining - resource estimates, stripping methods, mine development, productivity and cost factors, multiple seam mining, reclamation. Alluvial mining -hydraulicking, dredging, applications, and tailings disposal. Mine water and its control. Mine safety and regulations, environmental management. |  |  |  
	| ** 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 |  
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		| Year | Location | Period | Internal | Partially Online Internal | Area External | Central External | Fully Online |  
		| 2005 | Kalgoorlie Campus | Semester 1 | 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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