Official NUC CCMAS syllabus

MNE 102 — Introduction to Mining Engineering

2 units · MNE department course · Nigerian universities

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Course contents

Rocks and minerals: origin, distribution, diagnostic features and classification. Energy, minerals and water resources. Minerals in national development. Introduction to mineral prospecting and exploration by geological and geophysical methods. Development of mining technology – surface mining, underground mining and other novel mining techniques (gasification, liquification, in-situ leaching enhanced recovery, etc.) Mine surveying and the Geographic Information System (GIS). Stages in the life of a mine. Unit operations in mining. Mining and its environmental consequences. Processing and uses of minerals. Introduction to mining allied programmes - Metallurgical and materials engineering, Civil Engineering, Geology, Geophysics and Meteorology. The mineral resources of Nigeria. Introduction to licenses, leases and rights acquisition.

Source: the Nigerian Universities Commission (NUC) Core Curriculum and Minimum Academic Standards (CCMAS). StudyOps loads this syllabus automatically when you study MNE 102.

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