The course aims to educate students on rational design of open pit mines in the light of technical, economic, environmental criteria and safety of work. During the course students are trained in design using specialized software.
- Familiarization with basic mining concepts.
- Medium-term exploitation planning
- Assessment of the economic feasibiltiy of the exploitation through the determination of critical parameters (Cut off grade, Strip Ratio)
- Learning specialized mining software for surface mining design
- Configuration of a deposit block model
- Pit limits optimization
- Identification of optimal geometric characteristics and design of exploitation plans
- Special exploitation design features per type of ore deposit category (marbles, industrial minerals, aggregates, metallic ores, etc.).
