Course overview
The aim of this course is to provide students with the capability to select the appropriate mining method, together with its associated equipment, services and infrastructure, for a given deposit.
Course learning outcomes
- Identify, assess and select mining methods appropriate to specific types of deposits
- Appraise mining methods with respect to productivity, safety, efficiency, risks and sustainability
- Describe and illustrate major mining methods and their related equipment, supporting infrastructure, key performance drivers, and constraints
- Appraise mining systems with respect to safe, efficient, economic and environmentally and socially responsible operations
- Be conversant with the key principles of a systems approach to mining, and be able to describe a mining operation in terms of an array of interrelated processes and systems
- Demonstrate awareness of the major technological trends in mining methods and equipment