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Mining Engineering

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Year 4 · Semester 1 · choose 1 of 1

  • Ready to learn · Level 4 · 6 points

    Underground Ground Control and Geotechnical Data

    Keeping underground openings standing and knowing it: coal pillars, longwall abutment and caving, subsidence, stope stability, rockburst support, mining seismicity, test-data statistics and trigger plans.

    Prerequisites: no set prerequisites

    What you'll learn (8 topics)
    • Coal pillar design
    • Longwall abutment stress and caving
    • Subsidence and surface impact
    • The open stope stability graph
    • Dynamic ground support
    • Mining seismicity
    • Characteristic values from test data
    • Ground monitoring and trigger action response plans

Year 4 · Semester 2 · choose 1 of 1

  • Ready to learn · Level 4 · 6 points

    Specialist Mining Topics: Uranium, Critical Minerals and Frontier Resources

    The mining of metals that need their own arithmetic: uranium grade and radon dose, in-situ and heap leaching, lithium from rock and brine, water and propellant from the Moon, and the learning curves and decision gates of new technology.

    Prerequisites: no set prerequisites

    What you'll learn (8 topics)
    • Uranium grade and yellowcake economics
    • Radon, working levels and dose
    • In-situ recovery wellfields
    • Heap leaching
    • Lithium: ore to carbonate equivalent
    • Brines and evaporation ponds
    • Space resources and in-situ propellant
    • Frontier technology and learning curves