MINING ENGINEERING

Dr. Khan Muhammad

Assistant Professor

Department of Mining Engineering

University of Engineering & Technology Peshawar
Content
 Introduction
 Importance of Mining Industry
 Various speciality Areas
 Typical Job Tasks of a Mining
Engineer
 Evaluation
Can you name something
you are wearing or
something that you have
used today that came from
the mining industry?
 IMPORTANCE OF
MINING INDUSTRY--
Just about
everything!

 All other industries depend on

mining and agriculture
 Nearly all energy sources are
obtained via mining

If it can’t be grown it has to be mined!

 Our Earth Resources
 Resource =
 Physical or virtual
entity with utility,
value, and limited
availability
 Ore =
 Materials that exist
in quantities that
can be extracted
and marketed for a
profit
 Major types of ores
 Metallic
(ore mineral)
 Nonmetallic
(gem, IM)
 Energy 6
 About 40,000 pounds of new mineral
materials are now required annually for each
U.S. Citizen
MATERIAL LBS MATERIAL LBS
Stone 8,260 Copper 32
Sand & Gravel 7,110 Lead 15
Cement 690 Zinc 12
Clays 470 Other metals 32
Salt 420 Petroleum 8,100
Other nonmetals 1,470 Coal 5,590
Iron & steel 1,190 Gas 4,205
Aluminum 55 Uranium 0.1
 VARIOUS SPECIALTY AREAS

• Ground control and excavation design

• Ventilation systems design
• Mineral processing
• Geological modeling and reserve analysis
• Power system design
• Material handling system design
• Economic feasibility
• Operations and corporate management
• Others
MINING ENGINEER
TYPICAL JOB TASKS
1. Determine of best mining
practice.
2. Minimize ground disturbance.
3. Survey operations to
determine production levels.
4. Design explosive and blasting
operations.
5. Develop optimum materials
handling systems.
6. Evaluate operational
efficiency.
7. Develop ventilation & safety
engineering strategies.
Evaluations
 Write jobs of a mining engineer.
 Classify the following as industrial and metallic
minerals
 Iron ore Fe2O3, Fe3O4
 Limestone CaSO4
 Coal,Petroleum
 Water

 Write two mining operations