Guia docente 2023_24 Escuela de Ingeniería de Minas y Energía

Grado en Ingeniería de los Recursos Mineros y Energéticos

Sustainable exploitation of mining resources I

Contents

Topic	Sub-topic
Introduction and presentation of the subject	Justification of the sublect in the studies of mining engineering. Aims of the subject. Information on educational planning, formative activities, systems of evaluation, educational materials.
The paper of the minign like provider of prime matters	Brief historical review of the minign. Classification of the mineral substances. The mining industry: basic concepts, characteristic and singularity. Current panorama of the mineral resources in the world and in Spain. The paper of the mining like provider for the industry. The paper of the mining in the descarbonization and digitalisation of the economy. Critical minerals for the EU. Basic terminology in the mining industry in Spanish and English.
Chain of value in mining	Resources and reserves. Concept of grade. Chain of value in mining. The mining cycle and his phases. Mining project.
The exploitation of mining resources and the sustainability	Mining and sustainability. UNE Normative of sustainability. The paper of the mining in a model of production of circular economy
Opn pit mining	Geometrical and economic variables of the exploitations to open pit mines. Geometrical and economic stripping ratio. Introduction to the mining planning. Estimate of mining final geometry for simple cases by analytical methods
Cycle of production in open pit mining	Unit operations in open pit minitn. Equipment and technology. Digitalisation in the mining operations.
Quarries for materials of construction and dimensional stone	General characteristics of the quarries of materials of construction and dimensional stone. Basic cycle of production.
Open pit	Description of the method of exploitation by open pit. Field of application, advantages and limitations. Types of open pits.
Strip mining	Description of the method of strip mining. Field of application, systems of exploitation
Chemical mining	Leaching: basic cycle of production. Systems of leaching. Comparison of the systems of leaching. Other methods of chemical mining
Legislation in mining	Legislative frame of mining activities in Spain. Sectorial and transversal normative. Classification of the mining resources from the administrative point of view. Legislation in the autonomic field. "Lei de Ordenación de la Minería 3/2008".
The technical direction	Functions and responsibilities of the technical direction of a mine. Preparation and interpretation of plans of an open pit mine. Preparation and interpretation of maps of works in open pit mining