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Description of Module
Description of Module
Description of Module
Description of Module 4
10.4.1. Code: MMT 06102
10.4.2. Name: Underground Mining Survey
10.4.3. Number of Credits 6
Sub-enabling Outcomes:
10.4.4.
1.3.1 Perform error analysis of instrumentation equipment
Correlation of surface and underground surveys. Underground traversing. Stope surveying. Transfer of
controls underground: Weisbach triangle method, Weiss quadrilateral method, gyro-theodolite method.
Transfer of height underground. Directional control for drives raises and inclines. Survey of diamond drill
bore holes. Application of photogrammetry in underground surveying. Quality control and assurance.
Reading Material
a. Schofield, W. (2001). Engineering Surveying Theory and Examination, Problems for Students,
Fifth Edition Publ. Butterworth Heinemann, pp 166-172.
b. Uren, J. and Price, W. F. (1994), Surveying for Engineers, 3rd ed., Macmillan Press Ltd, pp. 554-562.
a. Haynes, M., Culshaw, M., and Marsh, S. (2001), Remote Monitoring of Natural Survey Point Network
for Precision Surveying of Structural and Ground Movements, Engineering Surveying Theory and
Practice, 3rdEdition, MacMillan Press, pp. 620.
b. GIM International. The Global Magazine for Geomatics June 2007, Vol. 21 Issue No.6 pp 41-49.