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Designing of Underground and Opencast Mines

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Course Unit Code542-0085/02
Number of ECTS Credits Allocated5 ECTS credits
Type of Course Unit *Choice-compulsory
Level of Course Unit *Second Cycle
Year of Study *Second Year
Semester when the Course Unit is deliveredSummer Semester
Mode of DeliveryFace-to-face
Language of InstructionCzech
Prerequisites and Co-Requisites Course succeeds to compulsory courses of previous semester
Name of Lecturer(s)Personal IDName
HUM72Ing. Martin Hummel, Ph.D.
ZUB021doc. Ing. Václav Zubíček, Ph.D.
Summary
The students will gain the knowledge of basic principles in designing of deep
and opencast mines in the technological, mining, machinery, building and
economic areas respectively. The relevant regulations are discussed, as well as
the problems of very deep mines and quarries.
Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit
The students will gain the knowledge of basic principles in designing of deep
and opencast mines in the technological, mining, machinery, building and
economic areas respectively. The relevant regulations are discussed, as well as
the problems of very deep mines and quarries.
Course Contents
1st Legislation associated with designing mines and quarries.
2nd Designing early development, preparatory works and mining, ventilation and transport
in underground mines.
3rd Project buffers and impact in different conditions.
4th Mining Chamber and the establishment - the principles for their design.
5th Energy networks and on the ground in a mine. Základkové economy and heaps
tailings.
6th Files of surface facilities and communications.
7th Principles for the design of opening quarries.
8th Designing technology mining work.
9th The choice of transport incl. auxiliary machinery.
10th Projects dumps, spoil heaps and tailing ponds.
11th Principles for creating a project organization under construction and quarries.
12th Construction budget and the total investment costs.
13th Some peculiarities in the design of deep mines and quarries.
14th Model and computer engineering.
Recommended or Required Reading
Required Reading:
KENNEDY, Bruce A., ed. Surface mining. 2nd ed. Littleton: Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration, c1990. ISBN 0-87335-102-9.
ŠIŠKA, Lubomír. Základy projektování dolů. 2. vyd. Ostrava: Vysoká škola báňská, 1983.
KRYL, Václav, Otakar VAVRUŠKA, Jiří MILIČ, Ilja KASZUBOVÁ a Karel PECH. Povrchové dobývání ložisek. Ostrava: VŠB - Technická univerzita Ostrava, 1997. ISBN 80-7078-396-6.
ŘÍMAN, Alois. Základy projektování kamenouhelných dolů: určeno projektantům, vědeckým a inženýrsko-technickým pracovníkům na dolech a jako studijní kniha posluchačů Vysoké školy báňské. 2., přeprac. a dopl. vyd. Praha: Státní nakladatelství technické literatury, 1963. Řada báňské literatury.
KENNEDY, Bruce A., ed. Surface mining. 2nd ed. Littleton: Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration, c1990. ISBN 0-87335-102-9.
Recommended Reading:
WARHURST, Alyson a Ligia NORONHA. Environmental policy in mining: corporate strategy and planning for closure. Boca Raton: Lewis Publishers, c2000. ISBN 1-56670-365-4.
ŠIŠKA, Lubomír, Antonín VÍTEK a Jindřich CIGÁNEK. Projektování dolů II: (vybrané kapitoly). Část I. 2. vyd. Ostrava: Vysoká škola báňská, 1984.
VÍTEK, Antonín, Jiří GRYGÁREK, Jindřich CIGÁNEK a Luboš ZÁBOJNÍK. Návody ke cvičení z projektování dolů. Ostrava: Vysoká škola báňská, 1993. ISBN 80-7078-146-7.
ŠIŠKA, Lubomír. Projektování dolů II: (vybrané kapitoly). Část II, Hlubinné, rudné, nerudné a uranové doly. Ostrava: Vysoká škola báňská, 1978.
WARHURST, Alyson a Ligia NORONHA. Environmental policy in mining: corporate strategy and planning for closure. Boca Raton: Lewis Publishers, c2000. ISBN 1-56670-365-4.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Lectures, Seminars, Tutorials, Project work
Assesment methods and criteria
Task TitleTask TypeMaximum Number of Points
(Act. for Subtasks)
Minimum Number of Points for Task Passing
Credit and ExaminationCredit and Examination100 (100)51
        CreditCredit33 17
        ExaminationExamination67 18