This course covers underground mining methods and associated bulk materials handling methods. Sublevel stoping, vertical crater retreat mining, raise mining, room-and-pillar mining (hard and soft rock), longwall and shortwall mining, sublevel caving, block caving, cut-and-fill stoping, and shrinkage stoping. Bulk materials handling methods, silos, belt conveyors, slurry transport, mine hoisting, and underground trucks. Prerequisites: Consent of Instructor.