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Terminated in academic year 2015/2016

Mining Geology and Reserve Estimation

Type of study Follow-up Master
Language of instruction Czech
Code 541-0203/03
Abbreviation DGVZ
Course title Mining Geology and Reserve Estimation
Credits 5
Coordinating department Department of Geological Engineering
Course coordinator prof. Ing. Martin Sivek, CSc.

Subject syllabus

1 Human society and deposits of mineral raw materials.
2 Deposit as an object of geological exploration and mining.
3 Information on deposits and issues of their processing and evaluation.
4 Exploration of the deposits of mineral raw material its design and management on various stages of deposit development.
5 Principles of keeping the geological-technical documentation of deposits of mineral raw materials.
6 Principles and goals of sampling the deposits of mineral raw materials.
7 Estimation of reserves of mineral deposits, its role and importance.
8 Basic reserves terminology.
9 Conditions ((determining,relevance),
10 Methods for reserves estimation.inventories.
11 Principles of creation of the geological models of mineral deposits.
12 Role and importance of reserves in the process of exploration, exploitation and termination of mineral.
13 Mining Act and subsequent laws in relation to mining geology, major tasks and methods of management of the geological service.
14 The main tasks of the Geological Survey in the exploration and mining of mineral deposits.

Literature

ANNELS A.B. (ed.) : Mineral Deposit Evaluation (A practical approach). Chapman & Hall, 1991, 436 pp.
Peters W.C.: Exploration and mining geology. 2nd edn., John Wiley, New York,
1987.

Advised literature

Moon Ch. J., Whateley M. K. G., Evans A. M. (Editors): Introduction to Mineral Exploration. 2nd edn., Blackwell Publishing, Malden, 2006.