Course Description
Course Information and Overview
Detailed drill and blast underground engineering concepts and optimisation.
8-9 hrs per day over 3 days = 27 hours total
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Course Outcomes
Advanced Drill and Blast Principles
- Timing and sequencing
- Slashing design
- Design a working plan from set parameters
- Critically evaluating extraction method
Stope Design and Optimisation
- Complex stope design
- Mining economics
- Charging risks and considerations
Additional Considerations
- Backfill considerations and complications
- Data and physicals tracking
- Management and reporting
Requirements
- 0 – 4 years’ experience in an underground drill and blast engineering role
- Undergraduate degree in:
- Science (Mining)
- Engineering (Mining)
- or related discipline
- This training course is held in an office space and hi-vis clothing is not required
Curriculum
Course Objectives
This course is designed to equip D&B engineers with the skills and knowledge to address D&B problems encountered within underground mining. They will learn how to critically assess common problems encountered in an underground production engineering role, apply strategic thinking to identify solutions, and how to optimise production methods.
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Course Content
Day 1
Advanced Drill and Blast Principles
- Detailed D&B concepts to problem solving case studies to real mine situations
- Timing and sequencing
- Slashing designs
- Create working designs
- Critically thinking extraction method not just doing the standard/ same repetition.
Day 2
Stope design and optimisation
- Stope design and optimisation
- Mining economic considerations
Day 3
- Charging through broken ground
- Brow management
- Backfill considerations and complications
- Data/physicals tracking, management and reporting
Assessment Method
- Simulated learnings and tutorials
- Group problem solving
- Exercise D&B design
- Case study
Fees and Registration
1-2 people $3,500.00 per person
3-5 people (from same mine) $3,400.00 per person
- Fee includes the course, course facilities, course materials, lunch & refreshments.
- Participants’ laptops are required for this training.
- This training course is held in an office space and hi-vis clothing is not required.
