Underground Metal Mining
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The official GTU curriculum for Underground Metal Mining (subject code 2162202) as prescribed for Mining · Semester 6 divides the course into 8 units, covering 28 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (2162202)Unit 2 Mine Structures
- Construction of mine portals
- shaft insets and plats
- ore and waste bins
- engine chambers
- ore passes
- Underground chambers and sumps and other subsidiary excavations
Unit 3 Secondary Breaking
- electrical and mechanical methods
Unit 4 Selection of Stoping Methods
- Classification of different Stoping methods
Unit 5 Stoping Methods
- Open stopping method-Room and Pillar
- Blast Hole and Vertical Crater Retreat
- Stopping and their variations
Unit 6 Supported stopping methods Timber, Post and Pillar, square set, cut
- and fill and their variations
Unit 7 Stope layouts and stope preparation work with different stopping
- Haulage and dumping
- ventilation loading
- underground crushing
Unit 8 Fill Support
- Material of backfill and their procurement
- sand gathering plant
- theoretical aspects of slurry transportation
- transport and placement of hydraulic backfill with and without cement
- rock and concrete fills
- surface arrangement for storage and mixing
- pneumatic and mechanical methods of backfill
- Caving Stopping methods Top slicing
- sub-level caving
- block caving and their variations
- Design and construction of draw points
- mechanics of draw and draw control procedures
- recovery and dilution
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