This course will equip students with knowledge in making holes in rock for the purposes of blasting, drainage and other services. It will also enable the student to select types of explosives for any given project. The student will be able to illustrate safe handling and use of commercial explosives as well as conduct analyses regarding blasting issues in the mining and allied industries as a Mining Engineer.
You are all welcome to the Principle of Mine Planning and Design Course.
You are welcome to the Underground Mine Planning and Design Course.
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The purposes of the mineral project evaluation are to assess necessary amount and source of capital investment, determine the economic appeal of a mineral project, estimate the value of the assets, select the most viable from investment options, sell a property; and/or, obtain loans from a bank etc. The objectives of this course are to Introduce the student to time value of money and its implications on cost of capital and investment decision criteria, Expose the student to the various methods of estimating revenues, costs, taxes and allowances associated with mineral projects, and equip the student with economic evaluation techniques to make sound investment decision.
MINE MECHANISATION
General information about machines used in the Mining industry, ranging from mobile to stationary machinery and ending with maintenance.
Computer
Applications in Mining I (MN 370) is a two-credit-hour course designed to build
the computing skills of students in advanced spreadsheet applications,
introduce to them Database management and mine planning and design software
such as Surpac