Mining Engineering

Mining Engineering offers opportunity for study in the fields of mining and mineral processing, including mine environment and coal preparation. Areas of research interest are:

  • Mining: Mine economics and valuation, mine design, drilling and blasting methods, rock mechanics and slope stability, optimization and simulation of mining operations, advanced mining methods, mine services (particularly mine ventilation), and climatic control.
  • Mineral processing: Unit operations, comminution, process modelling and optimization, expert systems, instrumentation and computer control. Flotation, surface chemistry, fines recovery, coal recovery, treatment of fine and oxidized coal, and precious metals recovery.
  • Mining and Environment: Acid rock drainage, environmental protection, effluent control and treatment. Social and legal aspects of sustainable mining practices, small-scale mining in developing countries.
 
 

Faculty Members in Mining Engineering

Name Research Interests
Dunbar, W Scott Industrial biotechnology; Economics and business administration; biotechnology applications in mineral resources; mining industry business model innovation
Elmo, Davide philosophy of engineering; rock engineering; geosciences; Numerical modelling; Machine Learning
Holuszko, Maria minerals characterization as it applies to mineral processing; recovery of metals from industrial and municipal waste streams
Klein, Bern Mineral processing and beneficiation; Mineral Processing; rheology of mineral suspensions; comminution; sensor based sorting
Kunz, Nadja Mining engineering; Public administration; Public policy; Public security policy; Decision Analysis; Environmental engineering; Hydrology; Risk management; Systems engineering; water resources management
Madiseh, Ali Mining engineering; Numerical modelling and mechanical characterisation; Heat and mass transfer operations; energy systems; Renewable energy systems; Energy storage; Energy decarbonization; Computational Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer
Miskovic, Sanja Mining engineering; Mineral Processing; multiphase systems; Production and Process Optimization; Optimization, Control and Operations Research; Prefeasibility and Pilot Scale; R&D and Innovation; Technological Innovations; Sensors and Devices; Computational Fluid Dynamics; Critical Elements Extraction; Embedded Sensors; Experimental Fluid Dynamics; High performance computing; IIoT; Industrial Big Data; Minerals Processing; Multiphase Flows
Miskovic, Ilija Multi-physics of Geo-materials, Big Data
Pawlik, Marek Surface chemistry, Adsorption of polymers and surfactants, Process water and reagent chemistry, rheology of mineral suspensions, interparticle and interfacial phenomena
Steen, John Thomas Strategy; Innovation; Network analysis; Projects; Mining industry
Torres Cruz, Luis Alberto Geotechnical engineering; Mining engineering; Geotechnical stability of Tailings Storage Facilities; Tailings management; Remote sensing of tailings facilities; In situ and laboratory geotechnical testing
 
 

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