COURSE UNIT TITLE

: MINING OPERATIONS II

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
MDT 3025 MINING OPERATIONS II COMPULSORY 1 2 0 3

Offered By

Mining Technology

Level of Course Unit

Short Cycle Programmes (Associate's Degree)

Course Coordinator

DOCTOR HASAN ERAY YAMAN

Offered to

Mining Technology

Course Objective

To understand open-pit design, production and excavation method applications and to learning underground mining methods.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To know the basic operations in open-pit mine.
2   May do machinery and equipment selection depending on open pit production method or rock feature.
3   To know the pretreatment before selection of underground excavation method.
4   To know underground mining methods and their application conditions.
5   May do machinery and equipment capacity calculations.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 The objectives of open-pit planning and important factors
2 The open-pit geometry, slope angles and design of excavation parameters
3 Selection criteria of an open-pit excavation and loading machines
4 Determination of the operating parameters for machine and equipment selections in an open pit
5 Work conditions of excavator, dragline, bucket wheel excavator and their selection criteria
6 Project examples for open-pit machinery and equipment selection
7 Mid-term exam
8 Classification of underground mining methods
9 Long-wall mining method
10 Room and Pillar method
11 Sublevel caving methods
12 Production method in blocks
13 Examining the factors affecting on selection of underground mining methods
14 Analysing decision about underground mining depth

Recomended or Required Reading

Main book: "Madenlerde Hazırlık ve Kazı Işleri", Senai Saltoğlu, ITÜ Maden Fakültesi
yayını, Istanbul, 1981
Other books: "Underground Mining Methods Handbook", W. A. Hustrulid, AIME, 1982
Madencilik Bilimsel ve Teknik Kongreleri Bildiri Kitapları. Kömür Kongreleri Bildiri
Kitapları

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

This lecture is going to make with theoretical courses in class, laboratory works and field trips. Instructor is going to teach the lessons with slide shows, create a discussion area with question and answer method with students and make laboratory works
on specific subjects.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 PRC PRACTICE
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.35 + PRC * 0.15 + FIN * 0.50
5 RST RESIT
6 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.35 + PRC * 0.15 + RST * 0.50


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

I. Mid-term exam 35 %: Assessment of the theoretical information.
II. Homework or practice exam 15 %: checking practice knowledge
III. Final Exam 50 %: Assessment of the all learning outcomes.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

hasaneray.yaman@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Monday 15.30-16.00

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 1 14
Tutorials 14 2 28
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 2 28
Preparation for midterm exam 1 3 3
Preparation for final exam 1 4 4
Midterm 1 3 3
Final 1 4 4
Practical exam 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 85

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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