Fundamental Principles of Mining. Main categories and types of underground mining methods. Characteristics and principles of Stoping (breast stoping, room-and-pillar, sublevel open stoping, AVOCA, long-hole drilling, VCR), Filling (cut-and-fill, drift-and-fill, bench-and-fill, shrinkage stoping) and Caving methods (sublevel caving, block caving, logwall mining). Design and dimensioning of room and pillar mining schemes, stability graph and dilution design, sublevel mining design. Mining method selection. Cost assessment. Use of SURPAC in the design of mining works.
