Surface Mine Planning and Design detail syllabus for Mining Engineering (Mining), 2017 scheme is taken from VTU official website and presented for VTU students. The course code (17MN743), and for exam duration, Teaching Hr/week, Practical Hr/week, Total Marks, internal marks, theory marks, duration and credits do visit complete sem subjects post given below.
For all other mining 7th sem syllabus for be 2017 scheme vtu you can visit Mining 7th Sem syllabus for BE 2017 Scheme VTU Subjects. For all other Professional Elective-III subjects do refer to Professional Elective-III. The detail syllabus for surface mine planning and design is as follows.
Module 1:
Introduction
Stages/Phases of mine life; Preliminary evaluation of surface mining projects; Mine planning and its importance; Mining revenues and costs, and their estimation; Mine planning: stages of mine planning and planning inputs.
Module 2:
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Module 3:
Geometrical considerations and Pit Planning
Basic bench geometry; Ore access; Pit slope geometry; Addition of haul road on pit plan; Pit layouts. Development of economic block model; Pit Cut-off grade and its estimation; Ultimate pit configuration and its determination – hand method, floating cone technique, Lerchs-Grossmann algorithm, and computer assisted hand method.
Module 4:
Production planning and, Analysis and design of highwall slopes and waste dumps
Determination of optimum mine size and Taylor’s mine life rule; Sequencing by nested pits; Cash flow calculations; Mine and mill plant sizing, Lanes algorithm for estimation of optimum mill cut of grade; Introduction to production scheduling. Influence of pit slope on mine economics; Highwall slope stability analysis and design methodology; Stability analysis and design methodology for waste dumps.
Module 5:
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Text Books:
- Surface Mining Technology, S.K.Das, Lovely Prakashan, Dhanbad, 1994.
- Surface Mining by G.B. Mishra, Dhanbad Publishers, Dhanbad, 1978.
- Surface Mining: The American Institute of Mining Metallurgical AndPetroleum Engineers In. 1968.
Reference Books:
- S.M.E. Mining Engineering hand Book Vol. I and II, Hartman, Society for Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration Inc. 1992.
- Method of Mining, Working Coal and Metal Mines, Vol. I, II and III – Wood ruff S.D., Pergoman Press, 1968.
- Introductory Mining Engineering – Hartman H.L. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 1987.
- Opencast Mining – R.T. Deshmukh, M. Publications, Nagpur, 1996.
- Latest Development of Heavy Earth Moving Machinery Amithosh De, Annapurna Publishers, Dhanbad, 1995.
- Rock Slope Engineering, Hock and Bray, The Institution of Mining and Metallurgy, 1981.
- Principles and Practices of Modern Coal Mining – R.D. Singh, New Age International, 1997.
For detail syllabus of all other subjects of BE Mining, 2017 regulation do visit Mining 7th Sem syllabus for 2017 Regulation.
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