12580 (v.4) Socio-Environmental Aspects of Mining 531

Area:	Department of Mining Engineering
Credits:	25.0
Contact Hours:	5.5
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
Tutorial:	1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Fieldwork:	1 x 8 Hours Once-only
Syllabus:	This unit provides the future mining engineer with a comprehensive and practical understanding of the socio-environment impacts both positive and negative that mining has on society. Topics include: product stewardship, legislative and regulatory framework. Voluntary codes, EIA, EMS, Environmental auditing, Environmental risk management and best practice environmental management, BPE techniques: exploration, noise, water, dust, lighting, tailings and air. Small scale mining, rehab and closure. Social community engagement, developing countries and Indigenous issues.
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
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
2010	Kalgoorlie Campus	Semester 1			Y
2010	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