Drilling is the process of making a hole into a hard surface where normally the length of the hole is very large compared to the diameter. In the context of mining engineering drilling refers to making holes into a rock mass. Different branches of engineering need drilling for different purposes. In civil engineering, drilling is required for soil sampling, foundation testing, and construction purposes. In Mechanical engineering, drilling is used for making holes in metal and alloys for various manufacturing work. In mining, oil, and gas industries drilling is one of the indispensable functions for exploration, production, and a number of technical purposes for industrial success. 

This course is designed to provide you with the necessary concepts, principles, and technology appraisal for enabling you to take up drilling operations in the industry engaged in provisioning of water, oil, gas and minerals to the world  and also to undertake necessary research and development work for understanding and enhancing contemporary knowledge and capabilities of drilling technology

Mining Machinery is a core course for undergraduate program in Mining Engineering.  This course deals with the basic construction, operation and maintenance aspects of machines used in the mining and quarrying industry so that a graduate mining engineer can select the right equipment for  specific job under defined geo-mining conditions and provide feedback for design, application, and upkeep of the machines.

This course briefly reviews the fundamentals of machinery and covers machinery used in mining for preparing work-site by leveling, grading and compacting ground, for preparing roads, removal of overburden and transporting it to the dumping sites, preparing the ground for mineral production, transporting the same to the processing sites. It also covers machines for under underground mining and evacuation of bulk materials with brief introduction of maintenance management aspects.

Mining Machinery is a core course for the undergraduate program in Mining Engineering.  This course deals with the basic construction, operation and maintenance aspects of machines used in the mining and quarrying industry so that a graduate mining engineer can select the right equipment for  specific job under defined geo-mining conditions and provide feedback for design, application, and upkeep of the machines.

This course briefly reviews the fundamentals of machinery and covers machinery used in mining for preparing work-site by leveling, grading and compacting ground, for preparing roads, removal of overburden and transporting it to the dumping sites, preparing the ground for mineral production, transporting the same to the processing sites. It also covers machines for under underground mining and evacuation of bulk materials with brief introduction of maintenance management aspects.

Surface mine design is a process of translating the outputs of planning decisions into tangible form of execution. Mine planning decisions are normally based on the available information to fulfill the objective of optimal techno-economic extraction of a mineral deposit. It involves with the evaluation of various alternative of possible extraction strategies through a reiterative process and finally decides one that fetches optimal financial output of certain investment outlay to the mining project. This course enables the students to apply the principles of mine planning to develop mine plans based on given design inputs. Students are also exposed to mine planning software so that they can take up details mine planning works.

This course is for enabling the students to take up a mine planning job and covers the review of principles of mine planning and conducts exercises on use of bore hole data to develop a mine plan using mine planning software Minex or Surpac. Analysis of mining work for scheduling of mining activities are also included.

The main objective of this course is to enable the students to design a surface mine. It is expected that a student undergoing this course will be able to –

• explain the basic principles of planning and design,
• state or define the critical inputs, requirements and constraints,
• determine the design parameters like ultimate pit limit and stripping ratio for a given deposit
• select method of surface mining for a given deposit and determine machinery requirements
• design face layouts and prepare bench plans and calendar plans,
• evaluate the economics of the surface mining projects,
• production planning and scheduling for surface mines
• use mine planning software

Materials like loose ore, fragmented rock, coal, food grains are called bulk material.The bulk materials can be of uniform size as rice grain or mustard seeds, mixed sizes as run-off -mine ore or powdered material like fly ash or fines generated in iron ore beneficiation. Bulk materials can be dry or wet. Thus a wide range of materials from mining products, agricultural products to solid wastes of municipalities all come under the category of bulk materials. These materials play an important role in sustaining growth and development of human civilisation. A large amount of money is invested in every country in bulk material handling and large number of appliances, machinery and systems are deployed in this sector. Bulk materials handling means processes involved in use of bulk materials. This involves transportation, storage, blending, reclamation, crushing, screening, drying etc.Considering the investment, cost of operation and maintenance needs, bulk material transportation is the most important bulk handling operation.

Bulk material handling operations are carried out as an interlinked sequential operations that are carried out as a system. Such system includes movable machinery, static appliances and storage facilities. Each of these are designed to serve specific objectives and operated and maintained by trained persons and using appropriate tools developed for specific purposes.

This course brings out the principles of bulk material handling and equipment and systems used for bulk material handling in the mining industry.

With the advent of ICT and AI&ML, data-driven decision-making and digitalized management have transformed the global industrial ecosystem. Mining and Mineral Industries have also had their impacts. As a result future engineering of bulk material handling and mineral processing will transform the industry. This lecture brings out the possibilities.

Orientation of New Faculty for Teaching Learning Management System 

Center of Teaching Learning & Education Technology (CTLET)

IIT Kharagpur 

February 8-10, 2023

Productivity assurance in mining involve closure monitoring and application of proper decision supports. Developments in ICT and AI have resulted in many innovative approaches of productivity enhancement. This course discusses how middle level management must align themselves with the emerging techniques 

Indian Coal Mining is old and has complex legacy due to changes in ownership, governance and policy. Currently a huge land and reserves are yet to be monetized. Quality of life within and around mining industry has huge scopes of improvement. Sustainable development in mining industry are facing numerous challenges. In this back drop many a times investments in capital, operation and maintenance are not performing as expected. Thus there are needs of investigating how the assets in the industry are managed. As mining industry is characteristically different from other industries, there is need of adopting philosophies and practices in other industries after appropriate due diligence. Asset management practices are now adopted in various industries including mining industry in developed countries. To adopt some of the principles to the benefit of our industries, it is necessary that we improve our knowledge base and start assessing ourselves. Before hiring any service providers for our utility management, for our business operations through a specific methodology, it is necessary to  update our understanding and knowledge. This workshop cum training is arranged for this purpose by inviting one of the internationally renowned veteran in the area of asset management Prof. (Dr.) Gopinath Chattopadhyay.

Cost Reduction on Mining Operation  and best practices in Open Cast Mining is discussed in this course

This course is designed to appraise the professionals of mining industry the recent developments disruptive technology for the mining industry. Many existing technology and operating systems are getting obsolete in a very fast rate. Industry need to prepare its readiness to change. This will need upskilling , reskilling, cross functional training in the emerging areas.

This course is for creating preparedness for upcoming changes and initiation of interests in new system development

A one-day workshop on "Leveraging Asset Management for Operational Excellence" was organized by the Asset Management Society of India (AMSI) at hotel Swosti Premium Limited, Bhubaneswar on June 11, 2022.

The course is primarily designed for imparting training for the officers and staffs of the VTCs. Officers and executives posted in the mine site and Headquarters are also eligible to apply and attend the online training programme, the first of its kind by CEP, IIT Kharagpur.

The broad topics that will be covered include, inter alia:

1. Planning and design of Vocational Training Services
2. Planning and conductance of Job Task Analysis
3. Requirements and characteristics of an online VET system and its development
4. Approaches for an effective vocational training system
5. Reformation of vocational training to make it more effective for safety and productivity
6. Strategies for Change management in Workplace learning, Competency-based education and training, Open and distance learning, and technology-enhanced learning and Monitoring and evaluation

After attending the course, the participants will be able to implement the following

1. Develop Safety and Productivity Oriented Worker’s Development Programme
2. Develop VTC augmentation plan specifying ICT requirements
3. Plan outcome based apprentice development program
4. Determine activities to monitor and to evaluate the effects and results of training programs
5. Prepare facility plans for effective VTC

Pedagogy i.e. teaching and learning of children is an well researched area and various principles have been developed. However, teaching and learning an adult has certain different challanges. A place of higher education brings adults of various background, abilities and potential to an interacting environment. Andragogy i.e the science of teaching and learning in adults for developing  human resources has various aspects. The course is an introductory program in the form of a short term course to reveal few topics of interests amonst teachers of DUET coordinated by its Mentor of TEQIP-3. 

Prof. K. Pathak is invited to interact in one session and will be monitoring the outcome through a P2AForum of Duet that is launched from this MOODLE site.

NEP-2020 and Online Curriculum Delivery

National Education Policy 2020 has brought new hopes and enthusiasm for the Human Resource Development sectors in the corporate houses as well as in the academic and R&D. Every engineering college will have to evolve their own implementation action plan aligning with the national road map. The curriculum will have to be redesigned. The new curriculum will be delivered online, face-to-face, and blended mode. Teachers will have to train themselves in these changing scenarios.  This course is to address some basic issues related to curriculum design and delivery in the online and blending mode.  In this course, general approaches will be covered so that the teachers can adapt it in their own domain areas.

Technological Advancements in Mine Mechanization and Management: Towards Enabling Industry by Industry 4.0 and Digitalization

13 April 2022, 8:00 AM to 10:00 AM

11 April 2022, 8:00 AM to 9:35 AM.