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SYLLABUS OF MINING ENGINEERING
SECTION B AFocusedApproach
SYLLABUS OF MINING
ENGINEERING
(BRANCH CODE 13)
Compulsory
IC 402 Engineering Management
MN 403 Mining Geology and Development of Mineral Deposits
MN 404 Exploitation of Mineral Deposits
MN 405 Mining Machinery and Material Handling
MN 406 Mine Ventilation and Environmental Hazards
MN 407 Geomechanics and Mine Design
Optional (Any three from any one Group)

Group I : Mine Environment
MN 411 Advanced Mine Ventilation
MN 412 Environmental Pollution and Control in Mines
MN 413 Electrical Equipment and Instrumentation in Mines
MN 414 Mine Surveying
MN 415 Mine Management and Legislation
Group II : Mine Systems
MN 421 Mine Systems Engineering
MN 422 Economics of Mining Enterprises
MN 423 Geostatistics
MN 424 Quality, Reliability and Safety in Mines
Group III : Mining Methods and Planning
MN 431 Advanced Rock Mechanics
MN 432 Advanced Methods of Mining
MN 433 Mine Planning and Excavation
MN 434 Mine Surveying
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ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT
Group A
Management and Organisations
Management process: Definition, planning organizing, directing, controlling, coordinating,
types of management.
Organisation Definition, planning, design and development, types of organizations.
Management planning and control: Classical, new classical and modern principles. General
Management, scientific management, engineering, management, systems management.
Planning: Procedures, resources and constraints, objectives, goals, policies and procedures.
Control: Setting of reference or standards, appraisal or evaluation, monitoring and
controlling, types of control.
Human resource planning and management, selection, recruitment, training, retraining, skill
development, competence development, promotion and career development, participative
management, trade unions, and collective bargaining,
Management of Physical Resources
Plant: site selection procedures, factors affecting selection. Layout-types and relative merits
and demerits, Maintenance-Objectives, different types of associated decisions, strategies for
effective maintenance, computer applications.
Material : Functions, objectives, planning and control including inventory models with or
without storage costs, price break ( excluding dynamic and probabilistic considerations).
Different classes of inventory. Material Requirement Planning (MRP).
Group B
Financial management: Introduction to standard forms of financial statements, ie., balance-
sheet, profit and loss, and income statement. Fixed and current asset items. Fixed and current
liability items. Linkage of two successive balance-sheets through income or profit and loss
statement. Funds flow statement. Financial ratios and their implications.
Managerial economics: Concepts, theory of production, marginal productivity and cost.
Introduction to theory of firm.
Quality management: Quality definition, quality planning, quality control and quality
management, Total quality management, ISO 9000 systems, simple quality control
techniques like control charts and acceptance sampling.
Marketing management consumer behaviour, market research, product design and
development pricing and promotion.
Project management: Introduction. Concept of a project, project management concepts,
project simulation, cost or project and means of financing, economic evaluation criteria of the
project, project implementation, project planning, scheduling and monitoring, project control
(PERT, CPM techniques including crashing). Project evaluation.
Information technology and management. Role of information, management information
system and decision support system, Information technology-introduction to e-business, e-
commerce and integration tools like enterprise resource planning (ERP).
MINING GEOLOGY AND

DEVELOPMENT OF MINERAL
DEPOSITS
Group A
Physical geology, petrologysedimentary, igneous and metamorphic rocks. Basic principles
of stratigraphy. Structural geologyfaults, folds, joints, etc. Process of mineral formation.
Classification of mineral deposits.
Mode of occurrence, distribution and origin of important metallic and non-metallic minerals
including fuel minerals.
Prospecting and exploration of mineral deposits-geological, geophysical and geochemical
methods, groundwater. Geological documentation for mine planning.
Group B
Introduction of mining technology, classification and properties of explosives and blasting
accessories. Mechanics of rock breakingdrilling and blasting. Blasting practices. Blast
vibration monitoring.
Mine entriestypes, location, orientation, etc. Primary and secondary development
underground. Shaft sinking-conventional and special methods. Deeping and widening of
shafts, tunnelling.
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EXPLOITATION OF MINERAL
DEPOSITS
Group A
Methods of working coal by pillar mining methods-applications, layouts, development and
extraction by partially and fully mechanised methods. Longwall mining methods. Influence
of depth, seam thickness, inclination, etc. Continuous mining.
New developments and special methods of mining thick seams, support of roadways and face
supports. Power support. Hydraulic stowing- Subsidence and strata control.
Group B
Methods of development and sloping metalliferrous depositsopen slopes, filled stopes,
shrinkage stapes and caving methods. Handling of ore and waste materials. Stope
mechanisation.
Opencast methods of miningopening a pit layout. Development and design of benches,
drilling, blasting, loading and transport Continuous mining systems. Placer mining
techniques.

questions.
MINING MACHINERY AND

MATERIAL HANDLING
Group A
Principles and basic design features of mechanical, hydraulic and pneumatic power
transmission. Transport machineryrope haulage, locomotive, conveyors, their basic
construction, operation and safety devices.
Hoisting systemsystem components, duty cycle, torque time and power time diagrams.
Drum and friction winders. Mining pumpsbasic construction and operation. Pumping
system in underground.
Group B
Electric, pneumatic and hydraulic drills. Cutting, loading and winning machinery for
underground mines. Longwall and open cast mining machinery. Aerial ropeways
classification, construction and operations.
Principles of hydraulic and pneumatic conveying. Storage and reclamation of bulk materials.
Developments in bulk materials handling technology.

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MINE VENTILATION AND

ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARDS
Group A
Heat and humidity in mines. Climate control and air-conditioning. Mine illumination, noise
and its control. Mechanics of airflow in mines, distribution of airflow. Natural and
mechanical ventilation.
Fantheory, characteristics, laws and selection of fan installation, series and parallel
configuration. Auxiliary and booster ventilation. Ventilation survey and instruments.
Ventilation planning and layouts, network analysis.
Group B
Mine gasesproperties, detection, physiological effects, monitoring. Methane layering and
methane drainage. Mine dustphysiological effects, monitoring and control.
Spontaneous heating and mine fires. Firedamp and coal dust explosions. Mine inundation,
Rescue and recovery. Occupational health.

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GEOMECHANICS AND MINE DESIGN

Group A
Physico-mechanical properties of rocks and soils. Deformation characteristics' and time
dependent behaviour of rocks. Rock mass classification.
Stress analysis and theories of rock failure. Stress distribution around mine openings. In-situ
stress and deformation measure.
Group B
Design of pillars, support design for mine roadways. Mechanics of caving and support design
for Longwall workings.
Rock slope design and design of pit layout, introduction to finite element methods.

questions.
ADVANCED MINE VENTILATION

Group A
Climate control: Psychrometry, mixing of air flows, hygrometric surveys. Heat stress indices.
Heat load sources in minesestimation. Geothermal heat transfer. Design of air cooling
systems: refrigeration, cooling towers, spray chambers, and cooling coils for heat exchange.
Dynamics of air flow: Turbulent flow distribution through rough pipes. Frictional losses.
Shock losses-estimation for bends, area changes, splits and junctions. Drag losses. Plotting of
pressure gradients for pipe flow.
Group B
Ventilation networks: Series and parallel systems. Concept of boosters and regulators for
flow control. Theory of network analysts: incidence, fundamental, and cut-set matrices.
Hardy-Cross iterative procedure. Controlled flow networkslinear programming and CPM
applications. Recent developments in mine ventilation.
Natural ventilation pressure. Fan and system interaction, fails in series and parallel. Dust
control in underground workings. Controlled recirculation.

questions.
ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION AND

CONTROL IN MINES
Group A
Atmospheric considerations: Basics of meteorology, atmosphere, ozone layer, and green
house effect. Contaminant dispersion, plumes from chimney, Gaussian plume dispersion, and
isokinetic sampling. Point, line, and area sources of contamination. Significant air pollution
parameters, CPCB and NEERI norms, effects, assessment, and sources. Dust control in
mines, mills, and haul roads.
Aquatic system: Water cycle. Water quality parameters, standards, measurement, and
instrumentation. Heavy metal pollution, acid mine drainage, and sediment loading from mine
effluentsproblems and control options. Tailing damsconstruction aspects and
environmental management. Basics of ground water flow and contaminant dispersion.
Group B
Aspects of land: Soil properties in relation to plant growth, lop soil. Soil conservation.
Reclamation and revegetation: design of overburden and waste dumps, and embankments.
Erosion control and slope stability. Soil amendment schemes. Plant speciessuitability and
selection. Alternative land uses. Use of flyash in mine reclamation.
Miscellaneous factors; Noise control and ground vibrations. Issues in the preparation of
EMP/EIA. Legislation relating to environmental protection. ISO 14CC0. Visual impact due
to mining. Environmental economics and auditing.

questions.
ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT AND

INSTRUMENTATION IN MINES
Group A
Mine power supply: Choice of voltage in surface and underground supply; tariff computation;
Mine cables-construction, installation, fault location; Gate end boxes and switchgears;
Earthing methods; Protective devices; Overload, under voltage, earth leakage, DC supply-
rectifiers, storage batteries.
Electrical equipment: Mining transformers, lighting transformers; AC and DC motorsspeed
torque characteristics, starting, braking speed control; Drives for haulage, ventilation fans,
pumps, compressors, electric locomotives, winders; Introduction to thyristor devices; Flame-
proof and intrinsic safety.
Group B
Control and instrumentation: Open- and closed-loop systems, remote control, sequence
control, winder control, control of open cast mine equipment; Sensors for measurement of
various operational, environmental and safety parameters in underground and open cast
mines.
Communication and data transmission: Mine telephone systems; Signalling systems, local
area network (LAN)-FOLAN.

questions.
MINE SURVEYING
Group A
Chain surveying, Compass-miner's dial. Contouring characteristics, methods, uses.
Levelling instruments-dumpy, tilting, and automatic levels. Levelling procedures, booking.
Plane table surveyingmethods and uses. Theodolitedifferent parts, horizontal and
vertical angle measurements. Temporary and permanent adjustments.
Traversingco-ordinate systems, problems, calculation of areas and volumes plotting,
triangulation. trilateral ion. Tachometry. EDMprinciples of EDM and its applications.
Gyrotheodolitedescription and applications. Theory of errors. Total station.
Group B
Correlation through underground and surface surveys. Measurements of depth of shaft.
Curveselements of curves, types, methods of setting out. Slope surveying-tape
triangulation, instrumental survey, transfer of stope plan to mine plan, string traverse.
Subsidence surveying. Shaft surveying, bore hole surveying.
Open pit surveying. Principles of photogrammetry. Field astronomy. Mine plans and
projections. Statutory requirements. GPS and introduction to remote sensing.

questions.
MINE MANAGEMENT AND

LEGISLATION
Group A
Concept of management, concept of system, production system. Organisation structures, span
of control, number of levels and management functions. Production economicskinds of
costs, evaluation of' capital investment and capital budgeting. Break even analysis.
Human factor engineeringmethods, analysis and work measurement, method study. Time
studytypes of studies and procedures.
Materials managementpurchasing, distribution and inventor)- control. Inventory concepts,
types of inventories and their relative costs.
Group B
Development of mining legislation. Principal provision of Mines Act, Mines Rules.
Coal and metalliferrous mine regulations and their interpretation.
Indian Electricity Rules, Mines Rescue Rules, and other related rules. Mine accidents
reports and records. Accident investigation and analysis. Disaster management.

questions.
MINE SYSTEMS ENGINEERING

Group A
Introduction to systems engineering. System concept and analysis. Tools and methodologies
of Operations Research. PERT/CPM, resource allocation, crashing of network, monitoring
and control of projects through network.
Introduction to linear programming: Graphical and simplex method, duality, sensitivity
analysis. Transportation and assignment models. Integer
programming.
Group B
Introduction to queuing theory. Basic structure of queuing models. Single channel-single
server and other queuing models. Inventor)' system and models. EOQ and different inventory
control systems. ABC analysis. Replacement of capital equipment.
Introduction to simulation, scope and limitation. Simulation of different mining subsystems
and total system. Monte Carlo simulation for discrete systems. Some mining-oriented
illustrations.

questions.
ECONOMICS OF MINING
ENTERPRISES
Group A
Principles of micro and macro economics and the application of econometric techniques in
mining industry. Mineral statisticsnational and global. Important mineral deposits and mine
fields in India.
Theory and importance of sampling, different method? of sampling, classification and
estimation o! reserves. Computation for tonnage average assay width, scoping width, clear
width, milling width, etc. Geostatistical techniques of computation of reserves and quality.
Group B
Financial appraisal methods, NPV, IRR, etc. Risk analysis for mining projects. Valuation of
mines and mineral properties.
Methods of financing industrial enterprises. Constitution and organisation of enterprises.
Mine productivity, costing; cost accounting and budgetary-control in mines. Taxation, profit
and loss accounts, balance-sheet.

questions.
GEOSTATISTICS
Group A
Introduction to mineral exploration, estimation of ore reserves, different methods of reserve
estimation-geometrical, distance weighting and geostatistical methods, review of
geostatistical conceptsspatial statistics and their application in reserve estimation.
Review of basic statistics in mineral appraisal, classical statisticsnormal and lognormal
distributions and their applications in reserve estimation, grade-tonnage curve; Correlation
and regression, auto-covariance and autocorrelation; Theory and methods of samplingdrill
hole compositing.
Group B
Theory of regionalized variables, variogram. semi-variogramsill, range, nugget effect,
properties of variogramisotropy, anisotropy, variogram models-linear, spherical,
exponential, gaussian.
Kriging: Point krigingkriging system of equations, kriging estimation variance, block
kriging, applications of kriging in reserve estimation.

questions.
QUALITY, RELIABILITY AND SAFETY

IN MINES
Group A
The quality aspects, functional responsibility for quality in a manufacturing system,
economics of quality assurance, quality control. QC decision variables. Process control.
Control charts. Acceptance sampling, single, double and sequential sampling plans, concept
of Total Quality Management (TQM).
Introduction to reliability concepts, basic statistics, probability distributions in reliability
evaluation-exponential, normal, lognormal, and Weibullfailure rate, reliability function,
application of reliability in mining system.
Network modelling concepts in reliability engineeringseries system, parallel system,
series-parallel system, partially redundant systems, network modelling of mining systems,
reliability evaluation of mining equipment.
Group B
Safety in Indian mining industry, accident data base, accident analysiscause of accident,
nature of injury, severity of injury, measures of accident ratesfrequency rate, severity rate,
regulatory measures of accident prevention, proactive, measures of accident prevention.
Basic concept of risk. Risk analysis and mine accidents, hazard tree, fault tree and event tree
analysis, systems approach in mine safety, development of safety engineering approaches,
human behaviour in mine accidents.

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ADVANCED ROCK MECHANICS

Group A
Rock strata characterization: Geological structures in rock mass, characteristics of rock mass,
joints in rock mass, joint survey techniques, rock mass classification systems. Methods of
determination of strength and deformability of rock and rock mass, failure criteria for rock
and rock mass.
Strata mechanics and ground movementdesign of underground excavation in competent
and incompetent rock, ground movement and control, rock burst theories of subsidence,
subsidence prediction and control. Ground control and stabilization .
Group B
Theories of elasticitypropagation of elastic waves in rock medium and dynamic behaviour
of rocks. Factors influencing stress concentration, zone of influence of an excavation, effect
of planes of weaknesses and shape of excavation, delinearization of zone of failure.
Instrumentationmonitoring instruments, their operation and installation.
Finite element method and boundary clement method, their application for stability analysis
of excavation and slopes.

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ADVANCED METHODS OF MINING

Group A
Recent trend of mechanisation in bord and pillar mining, Longwall mining. Mining of thick
seamsmethods and design consideration for exploitation of thick seam by inclined slicing
and integrated caving, special methods of mining with reference to Indian conditions, salvage
operations in Longwall mining; hydraulic mining.
Advanced metal miningblast hole stoping, raise stoping, pillar recovery. Dilution, loss and
recovery in stoping, stope design and production planning. Design
and construction of .special underground excavations. Mining in rock burst prone areas.
Novel and innovating mining methodsleaching methods.
Group B
Ore body modelling. Pit geometry, determination or' ultimate pit configurationdifferent
methods. Production planning and calendar plan for mining programme. Equipment
selection, design of haul roads.
Inpit crushing and conveying systems. Bucket wheel excavatorgeneral applicability and
fundamentals of operation. Cross pit conveying and high angle conveying.
Dump formation, types of waste dumpsinternal and external. Dump formation method and
corresponding equipment. Dump stability, stabilization methods and monitoring.

questions.
MINE PLANNING AND EXCAVATION

Group A
Principles of mine planning, short range and long range planning and their integration.
Strategic planning. Preliminary evaluation of mineral deposits. Stages of planning, feasibility
study, detailed project report, their preparation. Mine planning, scheduling, monitoring and
control. Application of network analysis. Economic productivity indices and estimation of
cost and profit.
Theoretical consideration for opening up and development of mine field. Division of mine
field and areas. Determination of optimal output, life and size of mine. Design of unit
operations. Equipment selection, planning and control.
Group B
Pit top and pit bottom layout. Planning of power, workshop and surface bulk material
handling systems. Planning of layout of waste and overburden dumps. Mine amalgamation,
restructuring, reconstruction planning. Post mining land use planning and mine closure
planning.
Mechanism of rock breakage and fracture. Rock fragmentation by explosive action, cutting,
ripping and impacts. Principles of excavating machinesroad headers TBM's, bucket
excavators, etc. Excavated material handling systems. Flow of materials in bins and design of
chutes. Mechanical and hydraulic transportation of ores and materials.

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