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Terminated in academic year 2007/2008

Opencast Mining of Non-cohesive Rocks

Type of study Master
Language of instruction Czech
Code 542-0301/01
Abbreviation LDNH
Course title Opencast Mining of Non-cohesive Rocks
Credits 4
Coordinating department Department of Mining Engineering and Safety
Course coordinator doc. Ing. Milan Mikoláš, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

Syllabus of lectures:

1st Occurrence, localization and characteristics of loose and raw materials.
2nd Conditions and specificities involved in the extraction, stability of cuts and mine lines.
3rd Basic technical parameters of mining-wall and hole pits and sand.
4th Strip and ground work on the deposit.
5th Systems mining, transport, filling and supporting the work wall and pit locations.
6th Characteristics of mining sites, according to the location of deposits and groundwater levels water.
7th Technology of sand and gravel extraction on the wall and the pit quarries
lower levels of surface water - mining dry way.
8th Technology loose materials in mining quarries pit of water extraction
machine from the shore.
9th Technology loose materials in mining quarries pit on water
surfaces floating excavators.
10th Technology dry material extracted transport route.
11th Technological transport materials extracted from the water.
12th Elevation, landing transported materials. Facilities and features port.
13th Supporting and auxiliary work, depending on other technological processes.
14th Water, sludge and odvalové economy. Smoothing operations and fracture
rehabilitation.

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

Žůrek,P.: Planning and Designing of Mines VŠB-Technical University of Ostrava,
Faculty of Mining and Geology, Ostrava 2005
ISBN 80-248-0818-8