Production Drilling and Blasting

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Effective Term: 2025/08
Institute / School :Institute of Innovation, Science & Sustainability
Unit Title: Production Drilling and Blasting
Unit ID: ENGPG9402
Credit Points: 15.00
Prerequisite(s): Nil
Co-requisite(s): Nil
Exclusion(s): Nil
ASCED: 039999
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Brief description of the Unit

This unit qualifies participants to apply an advanced body of knowledge in the area of drilling and blasting in mining and equips them with highly developed skills for research and enquiry. Students enrolled in this course will be able to apply the body of knowledge to a range of contexts within the mining industry enabling them to undertake professional or highly skilled work within the mining industry and allow them to undertake further study

Grade Scheme: Graded (HD, D, C, P, MF, F, XF)
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Placement Component: No
Supplementary Assessment:Yes
Where supplementary assessment is available a student must have failed overall in the Unit but gained a final mark of 45 per cent or above, has completed all major assessment tasks (including all sub-components where a task has multiple parts) as specified in the Unit Description and is not eligible for any other form of supplementary assessment
Course Level:
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5678910
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Unit Content:

Topics may include:

  • Production drilling and blasting for surface and underground operations.
  • Optimising fragmentation.
  • Analysis and optimisation of drilling and blasting in mining what is optimal in terms of energy partitioning from explosives.
  • New explosive and initiation systems.
  • Environmental effects of blasting, minimising the impacts of blasting.
  • Case studies and costs.
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