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This course is about development of a pre-feasibility study for a mining project. Students will have an opportunity to learn via different activities, including assessment of reserves, method selection, layout and optimisation of surface and underground operations, geotechnical design, ventilation design, project risk assessment, mine scheduling, equipment selection, cost estimation, economics/finance, and sustainability, as well as the use of mine design and optimisation software packages.

Students will specifically learn about mine planning software tools, review and preparation of a resource block model, open put design and optimisation procedures and underground mine layout design. As part of the course, equipment selection, production and equipment scheduling, cost estimation and economic evaluation for mining project will also be covered.

Furthermore, the course will go through ventilation and geotechnical design and project evaluation and sustainable development (Risk, social, environmental, mine closure, legislations, etc.)