MIN E 295 - Introduction to Mining Engineering

3.8 units (fi 8)(EITHER, 3-0-3/2)

Mining concepts and terminology, company operations, stages of mining, unit mining operations, surface and underground mine development and methods, feasibility studies and mine costs, ethics, equity, sustainable development and environmental stewardship, public and worker safety and health considerations including the context of the Alberta Occupational Health and Safety Act.

MIN E 612 - Principles of Geostatistics

3.5 units (fi 6)(EITHER, 3-1S-0)

Geostatistical methods are presented for characterizing the spatial distribution of regionalized variables. The theory of random variables and multivariate spatial distributions is developed. This class focuses on the quantification of spatial variability with variograms, estimation with kriging, and simulation with Gaussian techniques.