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Wersja polska

Course code: RSSS20098f12
Semester: 2012/2013 summer
Name: Environmental problems in the mining areas
Major: Environmental Protection
Study Type: second cycle
Course type: optional
Study Semester: 3
ECTS points: 3
Hours (Lectures / Tutorials / Other): 15 / 30 / 0
Lecturer: Prof. dr hab. Anna Karczewska
Language of instruction: Polish


Learning outcomes: The course is giving students theoretical knowledge of the characteristics of mining areas and introducing to complicated problems of environmental protection on these areas related to the kind of exploited resource and the method of exploitation and practical knowledge about reclamation of degraded areas.

Competences: Students will have the knowledge about the most important negative phenomenon occurring on the mining areas (noise, dusting, salt waters etc.). During the field practical students will acquaint with the methods of dump formation, the methods of reclamation and final use of dumps formatted from wastes of coal mining.

Prerequisites: Geology, natural resources and their protection, reclamation of degraded lands

Course content: History of mining, legislation of exploited resource in polish law, characteristics of mining areas and introducing to complicated problems of environmental protection on these areas related to the kind of exploited resource and the method of exploitation. The most important negative phenomenon occurring on the mining areas (noise, dusting, salt waters etc.).

Recommended literature: 1) Feder. G.L. 1979: Mining, reclamation, and water quality, U.S. Geological Survey 2) Hutchison Ian P. G, Ellison Richard D. 1992: Mine Waste Management CRC Press 3) Remediation of Historical Mine Sites-Technical Summaries and Bibliography, 1998. SME, Canada 4) Spitz Karlheinz; Trudinger John 2008: Mining and the Environment: From Ore to Metal, CRC Press 5) Geoffrey Blight 2010: Geotechnical Engineering for Mine Waste Storage Facilities, CRC Press

Assessment methods: Obligatory passing practical, written test on lecture material; minimum for passing: 60 percent

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