Official NUC CCMAS syllabus
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Add MNE 304 to my StudyOps — free →Ores, minerals and rocks. Structures and textures of minerals and their significance in mineral genesis and treatment. Ore analysis: qualitative and quantitative assaying and mineralogical analysis. Basic comminution theory, comminution and liberation. Particle sizing: sizing by screening and sizing by classification. Particle size analysis. Mineral concentration techniques - heavy medium separation, magnetic, gravity, flotation and other separation techniques including the physical and mechanical processes of agglomeration. Hydrometallurgical and biological recovery processes. Preparation of metallurgical mass balance: recovery and metallurgical losses. Introduction to essential laboratory experiments in minerals engineering. MNE 320/GET 399: Field Work and Camping (4 Units C: 9 weeks) Learning Outcomes At the end of the fieldwork programme, students would have been well grounded in: 1. skills for preparation of different types of maps and the methods of acquiring data for the processes; 2. application of some software packages for map making, mine design, processing, analysis and presentation of field data in various required formats (Surfer, ArcMap, Surpac, USIM PAC or MetSMART); 3. use of some hardware for map and field data interpretation and presentation; 4. calibration, setting and use of various survey and mineral exploration equipment for data acquisition; 5. selection
Source: the Nigerian Universities Commission (NUC) Core Curriculum and Minimum Academic Standards (CCMAS). StudyOps loads this syllabus automatically when you study MNE 304.