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Terminated in academic year 2004/2005

Opencast Mining of Cohesive Rocks

Type of study Master
Language of instruction Czech
Code 542-0288/02
Abbreviation LDSH
Course title Opencast Mining of Cohesive Rocks
Credits 4
Coordinating department Department of Mining Engineering and Safety
Course coordinator doc. Ing. Milan Mikoláš, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

Course Syllabus:

1st Occurrence, localization and characterization of coherent deposits of raw materials.
2nd Influence of physico-mechanical properties of rocks in mining.
3rd Basic technical parameters of mining-wall and hole quarries, soil pit, clay pit a etc.
4th Management overburden work, establishment dumps.
5th Technology grinding cohesive materials in quarries, clay pit.
6th Drilling work, types of drilling, drilling using fracture sets.
7th Applications and principles of blasting large scale (aperture, area, chamber
blasting).
8th Mining methods in the quarries. Cyclically-continuous technology.
9th Mining technology in hliništích, clay pit and similar quarries.
10th Determination pieces extracted rock, secondary disintegration excess pieces.
11th Treatment of extracted rock rozvalu, the optimal loading machines.
12th Technology services extracted rock in quarries, soil pit and clay pit.
13th Supporting and auxiliary work, depending on other technological processes.
14th Dump and pile systems.

Literature

B.A. Kennedy.: Surface Mining - 2nd ed.. - Littleton : Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration, c1990 - xi, 1194 s. : il., mapy ISBN 0-87335-102-9 (váz.)978-0-87335-102-7

Advised literature

Hummel, M.: Mining and Environment, Ostrava, 2005