MRED 505 UNDER-GROUND MINING METHODS

Terminology of mining methods, description of types of exploitation faces, mining methods classification, open stopping, cut-fill stopping, caving stopping, CAD of mining methods, ventilation principles, hoisting systems, history of tunneling, tunnel design, tunnel construction (NATM, TBM etc.), tunnel support, soft ground engineering, numerical analysis of tunnel and underground excavations stability

Laboratory exercise: basic study for an underground exploitation.