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Surface deposit mining

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Course Unit Code542-0050/02
Number of ECTS Credits Allocated5 ECTS credits
Type of Course Unit *Compulsory
Level of Course Unit *First Cycle
Year of Study *Third Year
Semester when the Course Unit is deliveredWinter 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
JAR60Ing. Mária Jarolimová, Ph.D.
SAN02doc. Ing. Jindřich Šancer, Ph.D.
BIL09Ing. Ivan Bílý, Ph.D.
SEI08Ing. Miroslav Seidl, Ph.D.
Summary
The goal of the subject is to familiarize students with detailed technology disintegration, handling, transport and processing of raw materials to the quarry operations. The course includes rules for work safety and safety of operation and legislation in the field.
Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit
The goal of the subject is to familiarize students with detailed technology disintegration, handling, transport and processing of raw materials to the quarry operations. The course includes rules for work safety and safety of operation and legislation in the field.
Course Contents
1) Characteristics of deposits: non-ore, ore and coal feedstock. Prospecting and exploring the deposits, category of stocks. Founding quarries and principles for early development.
2) Overburden work when mining in the stone quarries, coal mines and gravel and sand quarries and when mining other raw materials. Methods of drilling in the quarries. Drilling rigs in the quarry and their use.
3) Mass production in surface mines, mining operations. Large-scale blasting works in quarry operations, types of primary blasting and its application in the extraction of cohesive raw materials.
4) Mining methods in the quarries for the production of crushed stone. Cyclic-continuous technology. Mobile crushers.
5) Secondary disintegration of oversized pieces. Loading of muck from a bench. Choice of optimal loading machine.
6) Mining in clay pits (brick, ceramic, glass materials, clays, shales, etc.) digging materials. Mining for rough blocks for rough stone production (hard materials).
7) Mining of blocks using stone-cutting machines for fine stone production. Processing of stone.
8) Mining of non-cohesive materials, choice of technology systems, mining operations by types of deposits. Technology for extraction of non-cohesive materials by dry methods. Technology for extraction of non-cohesive materials from water using excavators from the bank.
9) Technology for mining of coal deposits. Mining in difficult conditions.
10) Technology of extraction of gravel and sands from the water using floating excavators.
11) Technological transportation at quarry operations.
12) Basic finishing processes after extraction of cohesive and non-cohesive materials. Principles for the development “POPD” (Plan of opening and preparation of deposits) (non- reserved minerals), technological processes.
13) Draining of quarries, dump and sludge management. Rehabilitation of the consequences of surface mining. Reclamation.
Recommended or Required Reading
Required Reading:
KENNEDY, Bruce A. Surface mining. 2nd ed. Littleton, Colo.: Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration, 1990. ISBN 0873351029.
KRYL, V. a kol. Povrchové dobývání ložisek. Ostrava: VŠB-TUO, 1997, ISBN 80-7078-396-6, 266 s.
KLIMECKÝ,O. a kol.: Lomové dobývání ložisek II., učebnice, SNTL Praha, Praha, 1988, 287 s.
KRYL,V., MILIČ,J.: Technologie lomového dobývání uhelných ložisek – Dobývání v obtížných podmínkách, skriptum ES VŠB strava, Ostrava, 1993, 117 s.
KENNEDY, Bruce A. Surface mining. 2nd ed. Littleton, Colo.: Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration, 1990. ISBN 0873351029.
Recommended Reading:
Hummel, M.: Mining and Environment, Ostrava, 2005
SLIVKA, V. a kol. Těžba a úprava silikátových surovin. Praha: Silikátový svaz, 2002. 443 s. ISBN 80-903113-0-X
KRYL,V., VAVRUŠKA,O.: Návody do cvičení z lomového dobývání, skriptum ES VŠB Ostrava, Ostrava, 1988, 202 s
Zákon č. 44/1988 Sb., o ochraně a využití nerostného bohatství (horní zákon) ve znění pozdějších předpisů a další báňské a související předpisy.
HUMMEL, M.: Mining and Environment, Ostrava, 2005
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Lectures, Tutorials
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