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MET 482

Metallurgical Design

Catalog2026-2027
Credits3 units
LevelUpper Division
Standard

Overview

Description

Greenfield design of a metallurgical processing plant from ore, topographical and metallurgical testing data.

Requirements

Prerequisites

MINE 322MINE 324

Corequisites

MET 410MET 431
Original catalog text

Prerequisites

Prerequisite(s): MINE 322; MINE 324.

Corequisites

Corequisite(s): MET 410 or MET 431.

Units

Lecture3

Catalog Details

Offering

Offered: Every Spring

Terms

spring

Core

CO14

Attributes

Standard

Learning Outcomes

  • develop, as a team, an engineering design for a metallurgical processing plant to recover the value from a hypothetical mineral deposit.
  • assess, as a team, the environmental and economic impact of an engineering design.
  • give a professional oral presentation on components of an engineering design for which they are primarily responsible.
  • write a major component of a formal report describing a team-developed engineering design in a format appropriate to the minerals industry.