Mine Planning
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Mine Planning Syllabus — Unit-wise Content
The official GTU curriculum for Mine Planning (subject code 3172208) as prescribed for Mining · Semester 7 divides the course into 2 units, covering 31 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 (3172208)Unit 1 Introduction
- Stages/Phases of mine life
- Preliminary evaluation of surface mining prospects
- Mine planning and its importance
- All type of grade and its estimation
- technical and economic information for planning
- Mining revenues and costs, and their estimation
- Mine planning components
- planning steps and planning inputs
- Ore reserve estimation Ore zone and bench/level compositing
- Objectives and principles of ore reserve estimation
- Estimation of grade at unknown point
- Methods of ore reserve estimation - vertical cross section method
- horizontal cross section method and 3-D geological block method
Unit 2 Surface mine planning
- Stripping ratio Concept of stripping ratio
- Types of stripping ratios and their significance
- Choice between surface and underground mining
- Feasibility Report - Contents and preparation
- Geometrical considerations Basic bench geometry
- Ore access
- Pit slope geometry
- Addition of haul road on pit plan
- Pit layouts
- Pit Planning 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
- Production planning Determination of optimum mine size and Taylor’s mine life rule
- Sequencing by nested pits
- Introduction to production scheduling
- Analysis and design of highwall slopes and waste dumps 25 Subject Code: 3172208 w.e.f
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