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MINE 680

Quarry Mining

Catalog2026-2027
Credits2 units
LevelGraduate
Standard

Overview

Description

Introduction to the quarry industry: economics, properties, deposits, extraction, processing, marketing, transportation and use of quarry products. Quarry engineering: planning, design and operations.

Units

Lecture2

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Offering

Offered: Every Fall

Terms

fall

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Standard

Learning Outcomes

  • identify the various quarry operations related to mining engineering.
  • communicate the importance of quarry in relation to mining industry.
  • interpret the various methods of planning, design of quarry operations.
  • describe production, marketing, use and regulation of aggregate industrial materials.
  • apply statistical quality process control terms and illustrate the importance of consistency in the supplied product.