Criteria
Final mark weighting = Semester mark(40%) + Exam mark (60%)
Purpose On completion of this module learners will be equipped with the knowledge and confidence to supervise and manage mineral concentration operations in a mineral processing plant by interpretation of sampling results and the taking of corrective steps to optimize process stage and plant efficiencies
Content Revision of Mineral Processing and Properties of Metals and Minerals, Gravity Concentration, Froth Flotation, Dense Media Separation, Magnetic Separation, Minor Separation Processes, Residue Disposal and Sampling, Practical experiments – Shaking table, spiral, Flotation machine and Magnetic Separator
MSY1111 MINERAL SURVEY 1
Calculation Criteria
Final mark weighting = Semester mark(40%) + Exam mark (60%)
Purpose Provide knowledge required for base of surveying related subject areas and fit for basic decisions in technical subjects related to mining
Content Basic Mine Surveying overview with focus on geometry, area and volume calculations, triangles, co-ordinate systems
MSY2111 MINERAL SURVEY 2
Calculation Criteria
Final mark weighting = Semester mark(40%) + Exam mark (60%)
Purpose Provide knowledge required for base of surveying related subject areas and fit for basic decisions in technical subjects related to mining
Content Mine Surveying methods with more advanced calculations
MSY3111 MINERAL SURVEY 3
Calculation Criteria
Final mark weighting = Semester mark(40%) + Exam mark (60%)
Purpose Provide knowledge required for base of surveying related subject areas and fit for basic decisions in technical subjects related to mining
Content Mine Surveying methods with more advanced calculations
MVN1111 MINERAL VALUATION 1
Calculation Criteria
Final mark weighting = Semester mark(40%) + Exam mark (60%)
Purpose Provide knowledge required for base of surveying related subject areas and fit for basic decisions in technical subjects related to mining
Content Basic Mine Valuation overview with focus on sampling and valuation methods including pay limit calculations and basic oreflow
MVN2111 MINERAL VALUATION 2
Calculation Criteria
Final mark weighting = Semester mark(40%) + Exam mark (60%)
Content Basic Mine Valuation overview with focus on sampling and valuation methods including paylimit calculations and basic oreflow
MIN21-1 MINING 2
Calculation Criteria
Final mark weighting = Semester mark(100%)
Purpose Provide knowledge required for decision making related to Mining layouts and safe work practice in Mines – well defined problem areas
Content MINING STRATEGIES: Mining strategies and stopping layouts dependent on the nature of the ore body. Layout selection criteria. MINING LAYOUTS: Metal and coal mining - emphasis on layouts especially gold and platinum (narrow reef with various inclinations) and coal mining tabular seams. scattered - long wall - cave mining - up dip mining - shrinkage mining - resue mining overhand and underhand methods – board and pillar – coal long wall – pillar extraction. ACCESS: Shaft design and design factors, shaft services, shaft safety - shaft stations and sizes - tunnelling, ore body development. Basics of shaft sinking and equipping. ROCK BREAKING: Explosives science - terminology - types -
application. Blast design, Drilling science - drilling - drills. Mechanical breaking - tunnel boring, raise boring, continuous miners. SUPPORT: General
interrelationship of support methods and units with mining method. (Detail covered in Mining Services Metal III). PLANNING INFORMATION: Rules of thumb statistics, efficiencies, production, records. INTRODUCTION TO
VENTILATION: DUST sources, methods of control, mixing and dilution, sampling and analysis, GASES mixing and dilution, measurement, types of gases - properties and occurrence, regulations. AIR FLOW: basic formula - Atkinsons and other, Renyold's number and modelling of airways resistance, air pressures - total, static and velocity evasees, internal energy and air power, pressure
surveys, pressure across doors and stoppings, pressure losses in airways, airways and ducts in series and parallel
MIN32-1 MINING 3
Calculation Criteria
Final mark weighting = Semester mark(40%) + Exam mark (60%)
Purpose Provide knowledge required for specialized mining layouts. Integrate engineering principles into specialized mining layouts – Massive Mining and open mining technologies
Content Integrate engineering principles into specialized mining layouts – Massive Mining and open mining technologies
GLG3AMM MINING GEOLOGY 2
Calculatio n Criteria
Final mark weighting = Semester mark(40%) + Exam mark (60%)
Purpose Provide knowledge required for identification of mineral deposits and minerals and implications of geology to mining activities
Content Formation Of Economic Deposits, Precious Metals, Base Metals, Industrial Minerals, Fossil Fuels, Geological Exploration, Environment Management, Hand Specimen Geology: Minerals, Rocks
Content Dust, Gases, Air Flow, Fans, Ventilation Practice, Reports Etc, Emergency Management, Section B - Rock Mechanics, Basic Theory, Rock Properties And Behaviour Under Stress, Mine Layout And Excavation Design, Computers
CNS211 NETWORK SYSTEMS 2
Calculation Criteria
Final mark weighting = Semester mark(40%) + Exam mark (60%) Purpose Competent to apply engineering principles, technical knowledge and/or
techniques to computer technologies by operating within relevant standards and codes relating to Network Systems
Content Internetworking basics (OSI model, protocols, addresses); LAN protocols; WAN protocols; Bridging and switching basics; Routing basics; Network management basics; Ethernet technologies; Fiber distributed data interface; Token ring
CNS311 NETWORK SYSTEMS 3
Calculation Criteria
Final mark weighting =Semester Mark (100%)
Purpose Competent to apply engineering principles, technical knowledge and/or
techniques to computer technologies by operating within relevant standards and codes relating to Network Systems
Content Internetworking basics (OSI model, protocols, addresses); LAN protocols; WAN protocols; Bridging and switching basics; Routing basics; Network management basics; Ethernet technologies; Fiber distributed data interface; Token ring
MNM31-1 NUMERICAL METHODS 1
Calculation Criteria
Final mark weighting = Semester mark(50%) + Exam mark (50%)
Purpose The purpose of this module is to develop in the students an approach towards solving engineering problems using Excel and minimum knowledge of
mathematics since it is a numerical method in solving problems. Real life problems are used so that the students can see the value of the subject and apply it in their work situation
Content This course is designed to make the learner competent in using computers to solve mathematical and engineering numerical problems with a minimum knowledge of mathematics. It uses basic mathematical concepts and converts them to computer language so that calculations can be performed by the computer. For example solving any type of equation, systems of equations, graph fitting, differentiation, integration and differential equations. Furthermore, the student is exposed to computers and feels more at ease with them
BOS311 OPERATING SYSTEMS 3
Calculation Criteria
Final mark weighting = Semester mark(40%) + Exam mark (60%) Purpose Competent to apply engineering principles, technical knowledge and/or
techniques to computer technologies by operating within relevant standards and codes relating to Network Systems
Content Internetworking basics (OSI model, protocols, addresses); LAN protocols; WAN protocols; Bridging and switching basics; Routing basics; Network management basics; Ethernet technologies; Fiber distributed data interface; Token ring
BOA321 OPERATIONAL RESEARCH 3