JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY HYDERABAD

Course Objectives

This course is aimed at providing the necessary geological inputs

required for a mining engineer. The components would help the mining engineering student to understand recognition of important minerals and rock units and their physic-mechanical properties, genesis, concepts of mineral prospecting, basic engineering geological aspects which is of immense use in mining engineering practices and tunneling projects.

Course outcomes: Students can understand the procedures for exploration of mineral deposits, estimation of mineral resources as outcome of this course, which is highly beneficial for the mining engineers in the industry.

UNIT - I

Mineralogy: Physical properties, chemical composition and mode of occurrence of important rock-forming and ore-forming minerals and industrial minerals. Petrology: Distinguish characteristic features, mode of formation and mode of occurrence of important igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic rocks.

UNIT - II

Engineering Properties of rocks & Soils: Physical and Mechanical properties, methods of determination, numerical values and engineering uses of important rocks. Genesis of Mineral Deposits: Definition of ore, gangue, tenor and grade of ore, processes and formation of ore deposits including coal, petroleum and atomic minerals.

UNIT - III

Structural Geology: Strike and Dip, Fundamental types, characteristic features and mechanics of folds, faults, joints (fractures) and unconformities. Foliation, lineation and other structural controls.

UNIT - IV

Mineral Resources of India: Major and Minor mineral resources of India, Brief description of origin, environment and distribution of mineral deposits of India. Mineral Exploration: Basics of Geological, Geophysical and Geochemical exploration of mineral deposits. Mineral Reserves: Estimation and determination of mineral reserves.

UNIT - V

Geology of Tunnels: Engineering geological investigations to drive tunnels in soft and hard ground stand up time and geology of some well-known Indian Tunnels, Gases in tunnels.

TEXT BOOKS:

• 1. Mining Geology by Arogya Swamy
• 2. Peters, W. C. Exploration and Mining Geology (2nd Ed.); 1987. John Wiley & Sons, New York.

REFERENCE BOOKS:

• 1. Mineral Resources of India by Krishna Swamy.
• 2. Mining Geology by Mc Kinstry.
• 3. Engineering Geology & Geotechnics by Krynine and Hudd.