Study of economic and environmental factors in cleaning a specific coal, laboratory tests for process selection, laboratory testing of alternative procedures leading to design of plant. Lecture, two hours; laboratory, three hours per week.
The geostatistics approach for estimating the spatial distribution of rock and mineral properties. Topics include treatment of the spatial distribution of ore grade as regionalized variables, covariance stationary processes, variograms, volume/variance relations, ordinary kriging, block grade distributions, and nonlinear kriging approaches.
A study of components and methods for providing protection to mine electrical systems. Review topics include power distribution arrangements, per-unit system, and symmetrical components. Course topics include sources of transients and faults, protective equipment, phase overcurrent relaying, and ground fault protection.
Procedures and methods of obtaining data and analyzing mine systems for efficient development and exploitation of a mining property. Course includes applications of operation research techniques.
Design and stability analysis of rock slopes using analytical, empirical, and numerical approaches, engineering geological data, groundwater pressure, blasting, and remedial measures.
A second course in geostatistics for mine planning and geotechnical applications. Topics include co-regionalized variables and cokriging, non-parametric geostatistics (indicator, probability, and soft kriging), loss functions and optimum predictors for ore selection decisions, conditional simulation--techniques and applications.
Ferrous and non-ferrous foundry practice. Application of engineering principles to the design and production of castings. Lecture, three hours; laboratory, three hours.
Study of the principles of powder metallurgy relating to alloys of unusual compositions, metal and non-metal combinations, porous and laminated products composite metals, and high melting alloys. Lecture and recitation, three hours.
The principles and processes employed in the preparation, treatment and production of various metals of economic or strategic importance; process economics. Lecture, three hours; laboratory, three hours per week.
The fundamental principles of corrosion control and the basic mechanisms related to a better understanding of the causes of corrosion. The application of principles to practical situations. Lecture and recitation, three hours.
