Advanced Underground Mining
- Generalities and classification of underground mining methods
- Choosing the right exploitation method with qualitative and quantitative approaches
- Determination of the open-pit to underground boundary, the remaining crown margin between the open-pit mine floor and the area of influence of the underground mine
- Design of underground mine development and opening-up spaces
- Pillars design in room&pillar and longwall methods
- Design of open stopes (determining optimal dimensions of stopes and optimal support system)
- Cavability assessment in caving methods, engineering classifications for assessing cavability
- Study of gravity flow of materials in underground mining and its use in designing sublevel caving and block caving methods
- Thick seams exploitation
- Nearby seams exploitation
- Stability analysis of floor failure
- Stability analysis of roof failure
- Production planning in underground mines
- Stowing the extracted space: advantages and disadvantages, types of stowing methods (manual, gravity, mechanical, pneumatic and hydraulic), design of pneumatic and hydraulic stowing methods
- Dilution due to mining: concepts, types of dilutions, consequences of dilution in various underground mining operations, factors affecting dilution, methods for predicting dilution rates
- Subsidence due to mining: concepts, factors affecting subsidence, methods for predicting subsidence, and control of subsidence due to underground mining